A Korean Stoneware Jar with Wave Decoration

Three Kingdoms (57 BC–AD 668), Gaya, stoneware with accidental ash glaze, neck encircled with incised bands of wave decoration.




6 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.

Collection of Mr. John Sylvester, Jr.

For a similar jar, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1997.34.4, another similar jar at LACMA, accession M.73.29, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, accession 88.84.

A few nicks to rim lip; overall surface staining consistent with age.