Jar with Four Lugs
500–699
- Medium
- stoneware with traces of ash glaze
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 32.6 cm (12 13/16 in.); Overall: 29.9 cm (11 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE)
About
This storage jar comes from the Paekche kilns. The matte gray surface of ash deposits on the upper body provides an appealing decoration. Paekche potters often employed the pounding technique (tanal in Korean) to treat the surface, a method to strengthen the clay body.