Pedestal Bowl with Dome-shaped Cover and Abstract and Openwork Decoration
7th century
Description
This covered bowl rests on a tall footring in the form of a truncated cone. The lower portion of the vessel is a simple bowl with rounded sides; the tall, hollow footring has a well-articulated lip at the bottom and four small, evenly spaced apertures around its side walls. The high, dome-shaped cover has a small, ring handle at its top, the ring thickened at the top to facilitate handling. Together, the rounded bowl and domed cover form a sphere. The cover is embellished with a narrow register of incised triangles immediately below the handle and with a ring of stamped small circles immediately below the triangles; the triangles and circles appear on the upper one quarter of the cover; the remainder of the cover is undecorated, as is the bowl. Localized areas of olive-hued kiln gloss appear on the cover; those areas without natural ash glaze show the medium gray of the stoneware body.
Dimensions
bowl only: H. 7.4 x Diam. 15.1 cm (2 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.) bowl and cover: H. 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Provenance
[through ?, Korea, mid 1960s]; to Jerry Lee Musslewhite (mid 1960s-2009); to Estate of Jerry Lee Musslewhite (2009-2010), sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010. NOTE: Jerry Lee Musslewhite was an employee of the U.S. Department of Defense who worked in the Republic of Korea from 1965 to 1969.
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