- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1991.515
- Title
- Pedestal Storage Jar with Geometric and Openwork Decoration
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- mid 6th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
- Period
- Three Kingdoms period, Silla, 57 BCE-668 CE
- Culture
- Korean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201556
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gray stoneware with incised, stamped, and openwork decoration. Reportedly recovered near Ulsan, South Kyŏngsang province.
- Dimensions
- H. 46.4 x Diam. 35.6 cm (18 1/4 x 14 in.)
- Provenance
- Gregory (1922-1988) and Maria C. Henderson (1923-2007), Medford, MA (by 1969-1988), inherited; by Maria C. Henderson, Medford, MA (1988-1991), partial gift and partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.515
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Robert P. Griffing, Jr., The Art of the Korean Potter; Silla, Koryô, Yi, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1968), p. 58, no. 3; p. 117, no. 3
Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), p. 27, no. 27
- Exhibition History
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