A STONEWARE JAR AND COVER Korean, Three Kingdoms period, Gaya federation (42-562)Important works of art from an American private collectionA STONEWARE JAR AND COVERKorean, Three Kingdoms period, Gaya federation (42-562)The almost spherical high-fired unglazed stoneware jar with rounded base, the short neck with a narrow circumferential band; the cover roughly hemispherical, terminating in a waisted knopWith two wooden boxes and a modern metal tripod stand 19 1/4in (49cm) highThis jar, large enough to have been used for an ancestral or funerary ritual, would have rested on a tall stand with perforated triangular or rectangular patterns in a combination that is unique to Korea and representative of the high-fired gray ceramics of the Three Kingdoms period.