Bowl with Willow and Reed Design (1300s): Art, History and Details

Bowl with Willow and Reed Design (1300s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A wide bowl like this example was especially suitable for drinking powdered tea shaved from a compressed tea cake, the most commonly enjoyed type during the Goryeo period. The inlaid image of weeping willow trees appears as a main decoration pattern on the inner wall of this bowl.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl with Willow and Reed Design
• Date: 1300s
• Culture: Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: pottery
• Dimensions: Diameter: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.); Overall: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1921.672

A detail from the museum

This bowl with a lightly bent inward rim possibly takes the shape of an alms bowl by Buddhist monks.

Collection credit

Gift of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Yi, Jong-min. "The New Trends on the latter 14th Century's Inlaid Celadon of Koryŏ Dynasty [14世紀後半高麗象嵌靑磁의新傾向]." Misulsahak yeongu 201 (March 1994): 5–40.
• Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
• Lee, Young-hee. "The Study on Techniques and their Interrelations among Craft Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 공예기법 연구 상호관련성을 중심으로]." Misulsa hakbo 22 (2004): 133–170.

View the collection record

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