Pedestal cup with cover

This pedestal cup with cover is unusual in that it is a cream-colored stoneware, which indicates that white clay (kaolin) has been included in the clay mixture. The conical stand has three registers of narrow oblong apertures placed very close to one another. The cup's surface is decorated with a band of wavy incised lines. The cover has two rows of short dotted lines in opposing diagonals and a band of serrated ridge as well as thin, wavy, incised lines around the central knob. The knob is in the form of a low pedestal with four perforations, often seen in vessels made in the second half of the fifth century. The saw-toothed ridge on the cover and the stand's narrow rectangular openings are often seen in stonewares of the Gaya states (42 - 562).

1 Hanguk Godae ui Togi (Ancient Korean Pottery), Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997, plates 90, 91, 92, & 95; Han Byeong-sam. Togi (Pottery), Hanguk ui Mi series 5, Seoul: Jungang Ilbo-sa, 1981, p. 226, plates 71, 76.