Jar

Museum number:
9-12654a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210912654a@2cb
Alternate number:
UCDA 1567a,b (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Food jar; a) body: stoneware, faceted with fourteen flat panels, round shoulder at base, narrow neck and foot, foot coarse on inside, vine decoration in blue on shoulder. b) lid: round, flat top and beveled side, inside flange unglazed, stoneware, translucent gray glaze, lid has four sets of three brushstrokes in underglaze blue. Jar 3 1/4” (13.8 cm) diameter, 5 7/16” (14.5 cm) high. Lid 3 3/16” (8.2 cm) diameter, 1” (2.5 cm) high.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Korea
Verbatim coll. place:
Korea
Collector:
George H. Kerr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Clay and Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars and Stoneware (pottery)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
for food storage. Yi period (A.D. 1392-1910)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 45 centimeters and height 17 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 9-12654a,b, described as Food jar; a) body: stoneware, faceted with fourteen flat panels, round shoulder at base, narrow neck and foot, foot coarse on inside, vine decoration in blue on shoulder. b) lid: round, flat top and beveled side, inside flange unglazed, stoneware, translucent gray glaze, lid has four sets of three brushstrokes in underglaze blue. Jar 3 1/4” (13.8 cm) diameter, 5 7/16” (14.5 cm) high. Lid 3 3/16” (8.2 cm) diameter, 1” (2.5 cm) high.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 9-12654a,b, described as Food jar; a) body: stoneware, faceted with fourteen flat panels, round shoulder at base, narrow neck and foot, foot coarse on inside, vine decoration in blue on shoulder. b) lid: round, flat top and beveled side, inside flange unglazed, stoneware, translucent gray glaze, lid has four sets of three brushstrokes in underglaze blue. Jar 3 1/4” (13.8 cm) diameter, 5 7/16” (14.5 cm) high. Lid 3 3/16” (8.2 cm) diameter, 1” (2.5 cm) high.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 9-12654a,b, described as Food jar; a) body: stoneware, faceted with fourteen flat panels, round shoulder at base, narrow neck and foot, foot coarse on inside, vine decoration in blue on shoulder. b) lid: round, flat top and beveled side, inside flange unglazed, stoneware, translucent gray glaze, lid has four sets of three brushstrokes in underglaze blue. Jar 3 1/4” (13.8 cm) diameter, 5 7/16” (14.5 cm) high. Lid 3 3/16” (8.2 cm) diameter, 1” (2.5 cm) high.

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