Bowl with Brushing Decorations
Unknown Artist
1400s–1500s
Medium
Clay, glaze
Dimensions
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Classification
Ceramic
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Karl Martoch
Accession Number
1970.559
About this artwork
This type of wide-mouthed bowls was used everyday in Korea, not exclusively for tea drinking. But when it was introduced to Japan around the early 16th century, its imperfect appearance evoking the aesthetics of wabi-sabi caused it to be repurposed as a tea bowl. Korean tea bowls were circulated as an item of foreign luxury among Japanese military elites. Many Korean potters were abducted to Japan during the Japanese invasions (1592–98) and some settled down in provinces such as in the Saga pref...