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Jar with Four Lugs

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.

Credit: Gift of Hongnam Kim in honor of Evan H. Turner and Michael R. Cunningham...

500s-600s
Stoneware with traces of ash glaze
32.6cm
1993.43
Image and text: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023

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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Permanent collection