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Dish with Inlaid Plant Design
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About this work
As early as the 600s, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite leisure culture in Korea. A wide bowl like this example was especially suitable for drinking powdered tea shaved from a compressed tea cake, the most commonly enjoyed type during the Goryeo period. The inlaid image of bloomed white flowers on the inner wall of this tea bowl must have made the moment of drinking tea more enjoyable.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDish with Inlaid Plant Design (청자 상감 식물무늬 접시 [靑磁象嵌草文楪匙]), 1300s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Celadon with inlaid design; overall: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1921.671
