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Bowl with Carved Design
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As early as the seventh century, 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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl with Carved Design (백자획화문완 [白磁劃花文碗]), 1000s–1100s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Pottery; diameter of mouth: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); overall: 4 cm (1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1918.428
