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Bowl with Willow and Reed Design
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About this work
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 weeping willow trees appears as a main decoration pattern on the inner wall of this bowl.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl with Willow and Reed Design (청자 상감 버들·갈대무늬 사발 [靑磁象嵌柳蘆文碗]), 1300s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Pottery; diameter: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.); overall: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1921.672
