Covered Pottery Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Jan 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: S. Kriger, Inc.
notes: label: Notes
content: From catalog card: "Slightly flaring shallow cylindrical body on short small footring, flaring rim on which domed cover rests. Of unglazed grey pottery. Decorated all over outside with vertical rows of punctation. Silla dynasty."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated p. 54-55 in Taylor, Paul Michael, and Christopher J. Lotis. 2008. Flagship of a fleet: a Korea Gallery guide. Washington, D.C.: Asian Cultural History Program, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Lidded bowl with impressed design; Stoneware; 15 x 20 cm; 8th-9th century; Unified Silla. The potter stamped designs into the wet clay just after throwing it on the potter's mwheel. The lid, when inverted, doubles as a dish. The slight sheen on the surface is a natural glaze that formed when ash fell on the bowl during firing.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 276860
label: USNM Number
content: A450063-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl