<em>Jar</em>, 17th century. Porcelain with underglaze iron decoration, Height: 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.236. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, , CUR.2004.28.236_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)

Jar, 17th century. Porcelain with underglaze iron decoration, Height: 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.236. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, , CUR.2004.28.236_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)

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Were these decorated jars common in Korea?

Yes, there are a great number of these that were made. This was a storage jar for use in the home. However, the material, porcelain, was a relatively elite one. Common earthenware and stoneware were more accessible to the average person.

Jar

Asian Art

On View: Asian Galleries, South, 2nd floor

By the seventeenth century, porcelain had overtaken stoneware as the ceramic of choice for wealthy Koreans and underglaze brown—once favored for decoration of Buncheong stonewares—enjoyed a brief revival, this time on porcelain vessels. These large, bulbous storage jars were formed by joining two bowls, one inverted on top of the other. The swelling surfaces of the jars give dimension and energy to curvilinear forms, as seen in particular in the swirl of the highly abstracted dragon.

MEDIUM Porcelain with underglaze iron decoration

Place Made: Korea

DATES 17th century

DYNASTY Joseon dynasty

DIMENSIONS Height: 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm) Diameter at mouth: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm) Diameter at base: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm) Diameter at widest point: 15 1/16 in. (38.3 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Asian Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 2004.28.236

CREDIT LINE The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection

EXHIBITIONS

Arts of Korea

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Asian Galleries, South, 2nd floor

CAPTION Jar, 17th century. Porcelain with underglaze iron decoration, Height: 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.236. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, , CUR.2004.28.236_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)

IMAGE side, CUR.2004.28.236_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, , 2005

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