Highlights
Duck-shaped Pottery
- Nationality/Period
Gaya Confederacy
- Provenance
Dalseong-gun
- Materials
Clay - Hard
- Category
life in society - life in ceremony - funeral services - scarecrow
- Dimensions
H. 16.5cm H. 15.5cm
- Accession Number
Sinsu 1110
This is a duck-shaped piece of pottery. The cylindrical object on the duck’s back is for pouring liquor. In the past, Koreans believed that a wild duck or a bird served to ward off evil spirits and lead the spirits of the dead to the other world. This piece of pottery is thought to have been used as a ritual object.