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항아리, 短頸壺
Korean
Three Kingdoms Period
57 B.C.–A.D. 668
Object Place: Korea

Medium/Technique Stoneware with beaten decoration
Dimensions Height: 20.0 cm (7 7/8 in.), Diameter of Rim: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Edward Sylvester Morse Collection
Accession Number03.1918
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

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).