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Jar

Korean

Artwork Details

Jar
918 - 1910
Korean
stoneware
4 3/16 x 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (10.5 x 10.7 x 10.7 cm)
Gift and partial purchase from Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp, purchase with funds from Elder and Mrs Sang-Yong Nam
2021/1.139

Description

Subject Matter:

Gray brown jar with short neck.

Physical Description:

A gray-brown jar with a short, splayed neck. High-fired stoneware jar from the Goryeo or Josen period. The wave design on the side is set between two horizontal ridges.

This is a gray-brown, high-fired stoneware jar. Its short neck splays sharply and is connected to a mouth that spreads almost horizontally. The body is widest at its upper-central part and decorated by a wave design between two sets of horizontal ridges. The flat base has no foot and is recessed at its center.

[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 85]

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