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Bowl with White-slip Decorations

Bowl with White-slip Decorations

1500s–1600s
(1392–1910)
glazed stoneware
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1986.83
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.
  • ?-1986
    Robert W. Moore, Los Angeles, CA
    1986
    (Christie's, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1986-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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