592 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



show all of these methods combined. Many of the ancient shapes, 

 although of great beauty and utility, are not seen in the modern ware 

 which is far inferior to it in gracefulness of design and variety of i^at- 

 tern of vessel. For instance, the handled mug, which is quite a com- 

 mon shape in the mortuary vessels, is not seen at all among modern 

 Korean, or indeed among Oriental vessels in general, except where it is 

 of obviously modern introduction. 



The decoration of these vessels is in incised lines, in most cases made 

 by a comb-shaped instrument; simple geometrical patterns and cross- 

 hatching is also seen; also dots, and excisions which ornament the bases 

 of the jars and the covers of some of the vessels. 



Inquiry among the educated classes elicited the information that 

 these vessels were made in ancient times to hold offerings to the dead, 

 and were interred in the grave with the body, and that this practice 

 obtained up to about the twelfth century. 



A similar custom prevailed in southern Japan, and the vessels were, 

 moreover, of almost exactly similar shapes and style of ornamentation 

 as shown in Nos. 94520-1 and 94520-2 of this collection, specimens 

 obtained from Nara, the ancient capital of Japan. In the collection of 

 Mr. W. Gowland, late superintendent of the Imperial mint at Osaka, 

 Japan, and in the national collections in Tokio are many examples of 

 pottery taken from graves in Yamato which could be duplicated in this 

 Korean collection. 



The present series and the collection in possession of the writer are 

 the only specimens of Korean mortuary pottery that I have any 

 knowledge of in this country. 



In plate lxxxvi are shown, besides the example of Korean ware, an 

 oil-bottle, No. 94519; two specimens of ancient Japanese mortuary 

 pottery; also examples of Etruscan and Roman pottery showing two 

 styles of tazza, the "tulip-shaped" vessel and the handled mug; but of 

 especial interest is the lioman vessel, No. 136549, in the center, which 

 has a base ornamented with the triangular openings of exactly similar 

 design as those seen in the Korean ware. 



Catalogue of the Korean Mortuary Pottery in the National Museum, Collection of 



P. L.Jouy. 



[Note: In the following list the figures in the plates are referred to as being on the upper, middle, 

 or lowtir line, the figures counting from the left.] 



Earthen pot. Browu ware, glazed, possibly warped in firing. The entire outer sur 

 face is covered with a reticulated pattern. Height, 11^ inches; diameter, llj 

 inches. Southeastern Korea ; U. S. N. M. No. 94518-1. PI. lxxxii, tig. 3, lower 

 line, 



Earthen pot. Dark browu ware. The entire outer surface of body and shoulder is 

 covered with a reticulated pattern of small squares. Height, 10^ inches ; diam- 

 eter, Hi inches. Southeastero. Korea; y, §. N. M. No. 9451ti-5i, PI. J.XXXII, fig, 

 2, lower iioe. 



