Cleveland Museum of Art

Lidded Jar with Horn Handle

Date

400s-500s CE

Medium

red earthenware with impressed designs and applied red slip

Culture

Korea, Silla (57 BC-935) or Kaya (AD 42-562) period

Department

Korean Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This type of pottery vessel was a product of closed kilns built on hillsides, which became widely used in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period. Its low-fired red surface indicates the various steps in its fabrication. First, coils of clay were layered on top of one another and pinched together to form the wall of the pot. Then wood mallets with carved surfaces pounded these walls simultaneously, inside and out, merging and thinning the clay bands. Thus the impressed designs visible on both the inner and outer surfaces were functional as well as decorative. Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.

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