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Object Number

1991.509

Title

Horn cup and pedestal stand

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

late 5th cent. - first half 6th cent.

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Korea

Period

Three Kingdoms period, Silla, 57 BCE-668 CE

Culture

Korean

Medium

Gray stoneware with incised, appliqué, and openwork decoration and with splashes of natural ash glaze

Dimensions

30.5 x 17.2 cm (12 x 6 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for the Acquisition of Oriental Art

Accession Year

1991

Object Number

1991.509

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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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. 62, no. 10; p. 117, no. 10

Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), p. 25, no. 21

Robert D. Mowry, First Under Heaven: The Henderson Collection of Korean Ceramics, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992), n.p.

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• 1991.509.1

  Pedestal Stand with Dangles and Openwork Decoration

  Vessels
• 1991.509.2

  Horn Cup

  Vessels

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