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Bottle with flattened side

9th or 10th century
Not on view
This shape likely derives from leather water bottles carried by northern nomadic tribes of Eurasia. Stoneware bottles of this type were produced at the kilns in Jinjuk-ri, South Chungcheong Province, during the ninth century, and they continued to be made into the early tenth century at the Gurim-ri kilns in South Jeolla Province.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 납작병 나말여초
  • 扁甁 羅末麗初
  • Title: Bottle with flattened side
  • Period: late Unified Silla (676–935)–early Goryeo (918–1392)
  • Date: 9th or 10th century
  • Culture: Korea
  • Medium: Stoneware with accidental wood-ash glaze
  • Dimensions: H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); W. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); D. 4 1/2 in. (1.4 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Judith G. and F. Randall Smith Gift, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.226
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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