Cleveland Museum of Art

Bottle with a Flattened Side

Date

700s–800s

Medium

stoneware with incised designs

Culture

Korea, late Unified Silla (676-935) or early Goryeo (918-1392) period

Department

Korean Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

By the 700s, this type of bottle started to be produced as a utilitarian vessel and was enjoyed among ruling elites. The flattened example like this may have served as a portable wine bottle. Its gray color and shimmering glaze both are the result of the reduction of oxygen in the closed kiln chamber built on hillsides.

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