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Jar with Four Lugs
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineJar with Four Lugs (짧은 목 토기 호 [短頸土器壺]), 500s–600s. Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE). Stoneware with traces of ash glaze; diameter: 32.6 cm (12 13/16 in.); overall: 29.9 cm (11 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hongnam Kim in honor of Evan H. Turner and Michael R. Cunningham, 1993.43
