Food jar; faceted with twelve panels, round shoulder and base, narrow foot and lip, sand adhering to foot, stoneware, shiny dark brown 'ame-yu' glaze, glaze is yellow where thin rust color where thick, pot used for honey, honey remains on pot. 10.4 cm diameter, 9.3 cm high.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Korea
Verbatim coll. place:
Korea; Kai-nei
Collector:
George H. Kerr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Clay and Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars and Stoneware (pottery)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
honey storage, Yi period (1392-1910) Vessels with a dark brown glaze flecked with lighter brown spots and splashes were made in the eighteenth and nineteenth century for use as kitchen ware. They are widely admired in Japan, where they are called 'ame-yu' or 'ame-glazed' - ame being a sweet-stuff resembling molasses often used medicinally; hence the Japanese description 'ame-gusuri' or 'ame-medicine', which is also employed for this type of ware
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 10.4 centimeters and height 9.3 centimeters