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The lush red color comes from an iron-oxide pigment that was applied and burnished onto this vessel before it was fired. Found primarily in tombs, jars such as this one were likely used in funerary rituals.
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붉은간토기 청동기 시대 후기
赤色磨硏土器 靑銅器後期
Title: Jar
Period: Late Bronze Age (ca. 15th–ca. 3rd century BCE)
Date: ca. 4th century BCE
Culture: Korea
Medium: Burnished red earthenware
Dimensions: H. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm); Diam. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); Diam. of rim 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Gift of Hongnam Kim, to commemorate the opening of the Arts of Korea Gallery, 1998
Accession Number: 1998.212
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