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Korean Chawan for the Japanese market Gohon Tea Bowl
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Pre 1900 item# 514733
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bleu et blanc/Blue & White America, Inc.
Tokyo Time: 011-81-90-1844-8776
$1425 please inquire for availability
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5.8" wide x 3" tall. Accompanied by an unmarked tomobako. Excellent condition with normal crazing, with some faint weak glaze hairlines. Choson / Yi Dynasty (1392-1910), 15-16c. Interest in Choson ceramics began in the 15c in Japan, and by the latter part of the 16c the tea bowls known as “Koryo” or “Korai chawan” saw frequent use in tea ceremony. Certain types were preferred by the Japanese, not white porcelain but various punchong (powder green) stoneware, coarse porcelains and coarse ash glazed stonewares, all manufactured in local provincial Korean kilns. From 1639 to 1737 the Japanese even ran a kiln in Pusan (southwest Korea) where such teabowls were made to order to Japanese taste (these are known generally as Gohon chawan in Japan). Other teabowls were casual made for local use but then utilized for tea in Japan. (see KOREAN CERAMICS from the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, p 28). Author Ito Ikutaro in his essay from this book classifies these ceramics as fitting within what he calls an “anti-classic” type of beauty, which “rebels against perfection in search of a unique aesthetic” p 31. Teabowls of this type are rare to see outside of Japan, being quite scarce and sought by collectors in Korea, where most of these are scarce domestically.
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