Cup And Cup Stand (Koryo Cheongja Suljan Gwa Jandae)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "12th century. Stoneware with crackled celadon glaze Cup The lotiform, lobed wine cup sits on a flat saucer with raised cavetto. Despite the corroded glaze, this cup and stand are typical Koryo celadon wares, although they were not fired together or intended as a set. Hough qualifies the pieces as having good "conception and general outline," and speculates that they were probably used in ancestor worship. It is likely that they were used for a variety of Buddhist rituals. Bernadou Field Notes 60-61 "... Found in a tomb near Song-do, the old capital of Korea. Koreans say that from the shape and design, such pieces cannot be less than six hundred years old... This [cup] rests upon the cup stand already described. The two pieces, however, originally belonged to different sets. During the long period of burial the glaze has been completely destroyed. Shape is that of a lotus flower indicating a Buddhist origin." Collected in Songdo (modern Kaesong, Kyeonggi province). Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XII, lower fig. 1; Bernadou Field Notes 60-61" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 4]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E121616-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cup / Stand
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 6.4 cm
label: Diameter
content: 9 cm
label: Height
content: 4.4 cm
label: Diameter
content: 14.7 cm