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Bowl with White-slip Decorations
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This type of wide-mouthed bowl was used every day in Korea, not exclusively for tea drinking. But when it was introduced to Japan around the early 1500s its imperfect appearance evoking the aesthetics of wabi-sabi caused it to be repurposed as a tea bowl. Korean tea bowls were circulated as a item of foreign luxury among Japanese military elites. It's highly possibly this type of bowl was produced in one of the kilns operated by the trading office Busan in Southern Gyeongsang province, and exported to Japan.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl with White-slip Decorations (백토 분장무늬 사발 [白土粉裝文碗]), 1600s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Glazed ceramic; overall: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mary Pendell and Esther Berger in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Ludlow, 1987.1076
