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Huo Pavilion
Cut-stem bowl,
5th or 6th century
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Handbook Entry
This type of stoneware cut-stem bowl comes from the tomb burials of the kingdom of Silla (57 B.C.–A.D. 668). Similar works were produced in the neighboring kingdom of Kaya (42–562), but Kaya works are distinguished by rectilinear cutouts placed one above the other along the foot of the vessel, while Silla wares tend to have a two-tiered checkered pattern, as in this example. The typical Silla cut-stem bowl had a lid and a rim designed to hold the lid in place. This example lacks a rim, and if there was once a lid, it is now lost. This type of bowl should be differentiated from cut-stem stands, which resemble cut-stem bowls but are more elaborately decorated and designed to hold other vessels. This bowl would have been used to provide tomb offerings of food and drink for the deceased.
Information
5th or 6th century
Asia, Korea
1963–2005 Winifred Hall (Princeton, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2005.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2005," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 65 (2006): p. 49-81., p. 57 (illus.); p. 58
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 58-59 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 58
