Mounted Jar with Cover

A.D. 42–562

Object PlaceShiragi

Medium/TechniqueStoneware with incised decoration and perforations

DimensionsHeight: 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.), Diameter of Rim: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.), Diameter of Foot: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.)

Credit LineMorse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution

Accession number92.2985a-b

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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).