The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Bowl with Stamped Floral Decoration
1600s–1700s
Location: not on view
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This type of humble tea bowl was highly praised among Japanese collectors for its imperfect beauty.Description
This type of wide-mouthed bowl was used everyday in Korea, not exclusively for tea drinking. But when it was introduced to Japan around the early 16th century, its imperfect appearance evoking the aesthetics of wabi-sabi caused it to be repurposed as tea bowls in Japan. Possibly produced in one of the kilns established by the trading office (Waegwan) in Busan, southern Gyeongsang province, this type of bowl was sold to Japanese elite collectors.- Park, Kyung-ja and Park Hyeong-soon. “Evolution of the Buncheong Wares in the Early Joseon Period as the White Porcelain Takes over the Taxation Supply [조선 전기 공납용 백자제작에 따른 분청사기 양식변화].” Misul sahak (2010): 291-321. www.dbpia.co.krLee, So-young, and Seung-chang Jeon. Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.Buncheong Ware [분청사기]. Seoul: Ehwa Woman’s Universtiry Museum, 2019.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1988.1056