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Tea Caddy with Stamped Floral Decoration
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This small jar may have been used as a container for powdered tea among Japanese tea drinkers. Possibly produced in one of the kilns established by the trading office (Waegwan) in Busan, southern Gyeongsang province, this type of tea ware may have sold to Japanese tea bowl collectors. According to a historical record dated to 1641, a trading boat shipped more than 14,000 tea bowls to Japan.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTea Caddy with Stamped Floral Decoration (분청사기 인화문 사발 [粉靑沙器印花文鉢]), 1600s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Glazed stoneware with stamped and incised inlaid white slip decoration; overall: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust by exchange, 1962.498
