Stonware bucket-shaped bowl with two loop handles

An image of Stoneware bowl. Unknown maker. High fired, well-ringing bucket-shaped bowl with two loop handles, bevelled rim, and shallow, well-fitting knobbed lid, the bottom untidily convex, of dirty-grey body with black wash-like tint ash glaze, with two rows of narrow-combed decoration. Inside the lid a long character inscription. Before (?) AD 700. Korean?

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Stoneware bowl. Unknown maker. High fired, well-ringing bucket-shaped bowl with two loop handles, bevelled rim, and shallow, well-fitting knobbed lid, the bottom untidily convex, of dirty-grey body with black wash-like tint ash glaze, with two rows of narrow-combed decoration. Inside the lid a long character inscription. Before (?) AD 700. Korean?

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Accession Number: C.169 & A-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 770 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 375.71kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:11:04 15:56:42

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8th Century bowl Fitz_AA grey handled Korean lidded stoneware

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