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The hollow base of this cup contains small clay pellets that produce a pleasant sound when the user tips the cup. Such luxury items, mostly excavated from tombs, were probably used by the occupant in daily life.
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Title: Bell Cup with Pendants
Period: Three Kingdoms period, Silla Kingdom (57 BCE–676 CE)
Date: 5th–6th century
Culture: Korea
Medium: Stoneware with traces of incidental ash glaze
Dimensions: H. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997
Object Number: 1997.34.14
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