Detail View: The AMICA Library: Lidded Vessel with Loop Handles

AMICA ID: 
CMA_.1999.228.a
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Nationality: 
Asian; Far East Asian; Korean
Creator Name-CRT: 
Korea, Iron Age (c. 300-57 BC)
Title: 
Lidded Vessel with Loop Handles
Title Type: 
Primary
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
3rd-1st Century BC
Creation Start Date: 
-300
Creation End Date: 
-1
Materials and Techniques: 
earthenware, with impressed, paddled, and incised decoration and red slip
Classification Term: 
Ceramic
Style or Period: 
Korea, Iron Age (c. 300-57 BC)
Dimensions: 
Diameter: 19.5cm, with cover: 21.5cm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 
1999.228.a
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Kang Collection of Korean Art in memory of Robert P. Bergman
Rights: 
Context: 

This small storage jar was hand built from coils of clay before it was finished on a potter's wheel. The thick, vertical ridges covering the surface were impressed into the wet clay using a carved wooden paddle. This network of raised lines was then intersected by four incised lines coursing around the bulbous form and separating the body into lower and upper areas with deft visual simplicity. Such direct, effective design solutions to ceramic decoration appear frequently in early Korean ceramics. The two perforations in the upper body were no doubt used to help secure the lid to the body with cord.

Related Image Identifier Link: 
CMA_.AM20020956.tif