Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea

Pedestal bowl

5th century

This grey stoneware bowl, missing its lid, is representative of burial pottery from the kingdom of Silla, one of the Korean “Three Kingdoms.” The distinctive rectangular piercings on the base may have been inserted for the fire beneath.

Stoneware with openwork decoration and accidental ash glaze

5 5/16 x 6 1/8 in. (13.5 x 15.56 cm)

Diam.: 3 9/16 in.

Girth: 17 in.

Diam. bottom: 3 11/16 in.

H. of base: 2 in.

Gift of Collins-Moffat Co.

51.189

Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Luminous: The Art of Asia", October 13, 2011 - January 8, 2012

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard B. "Korean Ceramics in the Seattle Art Museum," in Far Eastern Ceramic Bulletin, Vol. IX, nos. 3-4, Sept-Dec 1957, pp. 13-14, pl. I

"Korean Art Collection in the Seattle Art Museum, U.S.A." Tajaon Kwangyaoksi: Kungnip Munhwaja Yaonguso, 2015., pg. 43.

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