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Pottery lamp with three cups


이형토기, 異形土器
Korean
Three Kingdoms period, Silla
5th-6th century
Object Place: Korea

Medium/Technique Stoneware with ash glaze
Dimensions H. 10.4 cm (4 1/8 in.), w. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Edward Sylvester Morse Collection
Accession Number92.2964
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Korea (2012), p. 33
ProvenanceExcavated from the mounds in the eastern side of the Korean peninsula. Between 1881 and 1886, Pierre Louis Jouy (b. 1856 - d. 1894); probably sold by Jouy to Edward Sylvester Morse (b. 1838 - d. 1925), Salem; 1892, sold by Morse to the MFA (Accession Date: March 1, 1892).