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Jar with Stamped Decoration
1400s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This small jar may have been used as a container for powdered tea among Japanese tea drinkers. Possibly produced in one of the kilns established by the trading office (Waegwan) in Buan, southern Gyeongsang province, it was sold to Japanese tea bowl collectors. According to a historical record dated to 1641, a trading boat shipped more than 14,000 tea bowls to Japan.
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- Title: Jar with Stamped Decoration
- Date Created: 1400s
- Physical Dimensions: Outer diameter: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); Overall: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.)
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.678
- Medium: stoneware with incised design, white slip, and overglaze
- Original Title: 분청사기 상감 사발 (粉靑沙器象嵌文碗)
- Fun Fact: This little jar was part of the gift donated by John L. Severance (1863–1936). He and his father Louis H. Severance (1838–1913) collected Korean ceramics of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) from a number of pioneering medical missionaries as a way to foster their activities in Korea, and later donated them to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, early Joseon dynasty (1392-1910)
- Credit Line: Gift of John L. Severance
- Collection: Korean Art
- Accession Number: 1921.678
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