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Box and Cover with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated 1200s. Recorded culture or place: Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392).
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- Museum title
- Box and Cover with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design
- Date
- 1200s
- Culture / origin
- Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
- Materials and technique
- celadon
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.); Overall: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1918.423
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Celadons, spoons, seals, and bronze mirrors were the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918-1392). Once used to contain color powder, rouge and eyebrow gel for makeup, this small container was one of the standard goods that furnished elites' tombs. Goryeo-period women and men used the grain powder of rice or millet for whitening their skin, safflower extract for rouge, and plant ash or soot for eyebrow gel. Yet, natural-looking make-up seems to have been the most favorable one in Korea according to the travelogue by Xu Jing (1091-1153), the Chinese diplomat who visited Korea in 1123.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of John L. Severance · CC0
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