Page 28 - Symbols_of_Identity_Korean_Ceramics_from the Chang Collection

ttached to a flared foot pierced with four equidistant
Asquares, this squat, wheel-thrown jar has impressed
designs on the top half of the body. A register of dog-tooth
pattern is located just under the short neck; the triangles
pointing up filled in with vertical lines. Under this is another
register composed of connected scale-like half-circles. This
is followed by two more registers of dog-tooth pattern and
half-circles, respectively. Much of the vessel is lightly glossed
with a thin layer of natural ash glaze.

Although the material is the same as the dark gray stoneware
produced during the Three Kingdoms period, the decoration
found on Unified Silla stoneware becomes more complex
and denser than typically seen on ceramics of the previous
period, which are usually decorated with standard horizon-
tal lines and combed patterns. Like cat. 5, this vessel may
have contained food staples intended for the deceased, or it
may have functioned as a cinerary urn. It once had an associ-
ated lid, now lost.
7.
Jar
Late 7th–early 8th century, Unified Silla
TL results: fired between 1,500 & 2,400 years ago
Stoneware with natural ash gloss
H: 10.5 cm, W: 16.3 cm

26