id: 155748 accession number: 1991.106 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.106 updated: 2023-01-23 22:43:58.696000 Tea Bowl, 1700s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Stoneware with white slip and overglaze; overall: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); diameter of base: 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1991.106 title: Tea Bowl title in original language: 분청사기 완 (粉靑沙器碗) series: series in original language: creation date: 1700s creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1799 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) technique: stoneware with white slip and overglaze department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); Diameter of base: 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (James J. Freeman, Kyōto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1991 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1991– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This type of rustic-looking tea bowl was produced in one of the kilns established by the trading office (Waegwan) in Buan, southern Gyeongsang province, for Japanese tea bowl collectors who admired the beauty of imperfection. digital 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 16th century, 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. Possibly produced in one of the kilns established by the trading office (Waegwan) in Busan, southern Gyeongsang province, this type of tea bowl was sold to Japanese tea bowl collectors. According to a historical record dated to 1641, one trading boat shipped more than 14,000 tea bowls to Japan. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Jeong, Dong-ju. From Joseon Rice Bowl to Yido Tea Bowl [조선 막사발과 이도다완]. Paju: Hangil ateu, 2012. page number: url: Hur, Nam-lin. “Korean Tea Bowls (Kōrai Chawan) and Japanese Wabicha: A Story of Acculturation in Premodern Northeast Asia.” Korean Studies 39 (2015): 1–22. page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/44509616 Kang, Mu-Chang. "A Study on the Characteristics of Japanese Made-to-Order Ceramics and the Transition Process of Busan Waegwanyo Kiln - With a focus on Commissioned Tea Bowls [일본 주문 도자기의 특징과 부산 왜관요 변천과정에 관한 연구 - 주문다완(御本茶碗)을 중심으로]." Hankuk dojahak yeongu 17, no. 3 (2020): 5-19.
page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE10701417 Heo, Hyun-Jung. "Resource Supply and Demand of Waegwanyo in the Late Joseon Dynasty [조선후기 왜관요의 자원 수급]." Hangdo busan no. 39 (2020): 205-239. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE10739750 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.106/1991.106_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.106/1991.106_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.106/1991.106_full.tif