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Tea Bowl
(Japan and Korea )
This tea bowl was made in Korea for the Japanese market. Its characteristic rough and rustic form and surface epitomizes the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, an appreciation of the imperfect, the impermanent, and the incomplete.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1993 | Like the Taste of Good Rice: Art from Korea. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Korea, Gyeongsangnam-do (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
49.2097