Bowl with White-slip Decorations

백토 분장무늬 사발 (白土粉裝文碗)

1500s–1600s
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This type of humble tea bowl was highly praised among Japanese collectors for its imperfect beauty.

Description

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, which evokes 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. Many Korean potters were abducted during the Japanese invasions (1592–98). Some settled there, and ended up leading the development of ceramic industry in Japan.
Bowl with White-slip Decorations

Bowl with White-slip Decorations

1500s–1600s

Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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