Artworks

Onggi storage jar

Artwork · Anonymous · 1880–1920 · jar

A large lidded storage jar of onggi, paddled inside and decorated outside with stylized plants made by the potter’s thumbs in the wet glaze — the jars that stood on the terrace of every house for kimchi, soy and pepper paste. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 160–161, fig. 88. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.