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Clasp
The collection record classifies this work as metalwork. It is dated 918–1392. Recorded culture or place: Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392).
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- Museum title
- Clasp
- Date
- 918–1392
- Culture / origin
- Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
- Materials and technique
- bronze gilt
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1917.1050
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Both everyday objects and ornaments such as this belt ornament were standard for Goryeo-period (918-1392) burial goods. Furnishing tombs with an elaborate assemblage of objects was believed to honor and comfort the newly dead. Generally, Goryeo tombs were left untouched until the late 19th century. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists aggressively excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period. Highly possibly came from one of those excavated tomb sites, this bronze ornament evokes a memory about the colonized Korea (1910-1945).
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust · CC0
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