Mounted Cup

57 B.C.–A.D. 668

Object PlaceShiragi

Medium/TechniqueStoneware with perforations

DimensionsHeight: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.), Diameter of Rim: 12.0 cm (4 3/4 in.), Diameter of Foot: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)

Credit LineMorse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution

Accession number92.2969

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ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Asia

ProvenanceExcavated from the mounds in the eastern side of the Korean peninsula. Between 1881 and 1886, Pierre Louis Jouy (b. 1856 - d. 1894); probably sold by Jouy to Edward Sylvester Morse (b. 1838 - d. 1925), Salem; 1892, sold by Morse to the MFA (Accession Date: March 1, 1892).