Jar and Tall Stand in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010

Jar and Tall Stand

Period: Three Kingdoms period, Silla kingdom (57 B.C.–A.D. 668)

Date: mid-5th century

Culture: Korea

Medium: Stoneware with traces of incidental ash glaze

Dimensions: H. 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm)

Classification: Ceramic

Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997

Accession Number: 1997.34.24a, b

Description:

This combination of a bulbous jar and a tall stand with a perforated design is representative of high-fired, wheel-thrown gray stoneware from the Silla kingdom and Gaya federation. Silla vessels, particularly those featuring dramatic bases, seem to have functioned primarily as burial objects.


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