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Tea bowl with brushed-slip decoration
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Dense, dark brown clay. White slip brushed thinly in narrow band on outside, broadly and generously on inside, under glaze. Clear glaze with soft sheen, appearing gray over dark clay body, and milky opaque where thick; some pinholes surrounded by pinkish blush. Five irregularly shaped spur marks in bottom; five scars on glazed foot ring.
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineTea bowl with brushed-slip decoration. 1800-1850. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
