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Bowl with Incised Parrot 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 image of flying parrots inscribed on the inner wall of this tea bowl may have made the moment of drinking tea much enjoyable.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl with Incised Parrot Design (청자 음각 앵무새무늬 사발 [靑磁陰刻鸚鵡文碗]), 1100s–1200s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Glazed porcelain; overall: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund, 1924.136
