This shape likely derives from leather water bottles carried by northern nomadic tribes of Eurasia. Stoneware bottles of this type were produced at the kilns in Jinjuk-ri, South Chungcheong Province, during the ninth century, and they continued to be made into the early tenth century at the Gurim-ri kilns in South Jeolla Province.
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납작병 나말여초 扁甁 羅末麗初
Title:Bottle with flattened side
Period:late Unified Silla (676–935)–early Goryeo (918–1392)
Date:9th or 10th century
Culture:Korea
Medium:Stoneware with accidental wood-ash glaze
Dimensions:H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); W. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); D. 4 1/2 in. (1.4 cm)
Classification:Ceramics
Credit Line:Purchase, Judith G. and F. Randall Smith Gift, 1994
Accession Number:1994.226
[ Joseph L. Brotherton , San Francisco, until 1994; sold to MMA]
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Arts of Korea," June 7, 1998–January 24, 1999.
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemplations on the Moon Jar," November 16, 2009–April 25, 2010.
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Representation/Abstraction in Korean Art," November 23, 2010–March 20, 2011.
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Splendors of Korean Art," October 1, 2016–October 22, 2017.
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