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Multifaceted Bowl

Multifaceted Bowl

백자 제기형 대발 (白磁祭器形大鉢)

1992

Ik-yung Kim 김익영

(Korean, b. 1935)

Carved and glazed porcelain

Overall: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)

Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of the artist 1992.139

Location

Did you know?

The surface of this vessel is made by using the technique called myeon-chi-gi, a “cutting surface” technique.

Description

According to the artist, a lecture by British ceramics artist Bernard Leach (1887–1979) at Alfred University in New York inspired young Kim to revisit the Korean ceramic tradition. This white porcelain bowl, with its carved multifaceted surface in particular, showcases her reimagination of naturalism and minimalism, the two overarching aesthetic principles of white porcelain ritual vessels of Korea's Joseon period (1392–1910).

See also
Collection: 
Korean Art
Department: 
Korean Art
Type of artwork: 
Ceramic

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