Dish with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)

Dish with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design

청자 상감 국화무늬 접시 (靑磁象嵌菊花文楪匙)

1200s

Korea, Goryeo dynasty

(918–1392)

Diameter of mouth: 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.)

Educational Purchase Fund 1924.135

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On the base of this tea bowl, three small spur marks made of bits of clay remain visible, indicating an individual protective casing of fire clay (saggar).

Description

Celadons wares used for everyday such as this dish were among the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918–1392). Furnishing tombs with an elaborate assemblage of objects was believed to honor and comfort the newly dead. Generally, Goryeo tombs were left untouched until the late 19th century. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists competitively excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period, and these wares soon became available for Japanese and Western collectors.