Early Joseon dynasty (1392-1897) Korean Mishima tea bowl with Japanese appraisal box
Such bowls were exported to Japan since Momoyama period where they were used for tea ceremony giving the birth of Japanese Mishima ware.
Size
Width 14 cm
Height 7 cm
There are gold lacquer repairs
A Very Rare and Fine Early Yi Period White Porcelain Stem Bowl-15th C.:
Korea, Joseon period, 15th century.
An unusual shape of deep bowl and finely potted with in-curving walls
set on a tall splayed foot, applied evenly overall with a thin and clear crackled
white glaze throughout the interior and exterior, including base,
It’s in very fine condition overall, measures 5.25” h. x 5 7/8” d. (13.3 cm x 15 cm).
We are proud to present you a very rare Korean Irabo Chawan made in the early Edo Period on Japanese order.
This is a Wan shaped tea bowl made of coarse, unrefined clay with a high content of iron oxide. The clay shows impurities and stones - some of them have exploded ('ishihaze'). Over the dark clay a thin, transparent ash glaze has been applied, inside is an aesthetic brush stroke (hake me) in white engobe.
The bowl has a beautiful shape and is well balanced...
Extremely rare: Korean Amamori Chawan of Choson (Yi) Dynasty (1392-1910). Wan shaped tea bowl, thrown from light, refined clay, with very little iron oxide, covered with a white feldspatic glaze with fine crackles and pin holes including the small foot.
Through many years of use the tea has seeped through the holes and crack to discolour the white clay body underneath, creating an effect called amamory - rain leak. The effect is especially strong along the rim...
Here we present a real fine example of Korean art: smaller rounded wan-shaped bowl with high foot of the bamboo node style - the dark, fine clay with some enclosures is expertly thrown. The chawan was decorated with a white engobe in brushstrokes with a straw brush (hakeme) before the whole bowl was covered with an ash glaze. No chips or cracks...
A Korean Rare/Fine Punchong Ware White Slip Inlaid Dish -16th C.:
Korea, early Joseon dynasty, 15th -16th century
The shallow circular dish tapering to a raised ring foot, decorated with white slip
inlaid, the interior with a central flowerhead medallion surrounded by bands of
smaller impressed flowerheads and stylized tendril patterns, the exterior with
curtain rope design in vertical, all beneath a thick finely bubble
suffused grayish green glaze...
15-16cc Korean antique Goryeo celadon bowl which was imported to Japan during Edo period and used for tea ceremony
Size
Diameter 17.6cm
Weight 355g
Condition
Excellent
No chips. No cracks.
This is the only ancient Korean mace ever offered for sale. The few existing examples are all in museums in Korea. It is from the Early Joseon Dynasty, 16th Century or earlier. Only Korea has this type of straight mace with a perfectly round head. And the head is made from iron insets just like the scales on Korean royal armor. 22 inches (46 cm) long, 3.5 inches (9 cm) wide.
A Korean Fine/Rare White Slip Brushed Punchong Tea Bowl-15th C.:
Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th Century
The deep bowl, on short ring foot, simply decorated in brushed-applied
white slip over a greenish ground beneath a clear glaze, with 5 spur marks in the well,
it’s in very fine condition but a tiny chip on the mouth rim,
it measures 18.8cm d. x 7.7cm h.
A Very Fine Korean Early White Glazed Bowl-16th C.:
Korea, early Joseon dynasty, 15th - 16th century.
Well potted and portioned white glazed deep bowl, recessed and set on a raised ring foot,
with gently everted moutn rim, simple decorated in a clear white grey-tinged glaze, its well
bears firing traces, base white glazed and foot rim bears sands.
It’s very fine condition without any hairline cracks but some areas mottled glaze and color, giving it a misty appearance, other wise it’...
A Beautiful Korean Koryo Bronze Pear-Form Bottle/Natural Green Patina-13th/14th C.: Korea, Koryo dynasty, 13th to 14th century.
The bottle with beautiful natural green patina over the body in welling body
cast in the mid-section and shoulder with rings, further repeated on the tall trumphet
shaped neck with lipped mouth, all supported on a high thin foot ring...
Choson period, 1400s
A stamped design of repeating flower heads laid out in concentric bands covers the interior. The exterior sides have a similar band between incised lines. The depressions are filled with white slip which is then wiped clean off the surfaced, leaving the white clay in the impressed design. A clear glaze covers the design and most of the body. The footring, base, and a portion of the lower body are unglazed...
A Very Fine/Rare Korean Punchong Bowl with Characters White Slip Inlaid: 15th C.:
Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th century.
The shallow bowl, set on a raised ring foot, and decorated in inlaid white slip with a
centural two characters inscription, surrounded by a wide band of stylized lappets,
a wide band flower heads design, the exterior decorated en suite, beneath a pale
celadon glaze...
A Very Rare Korean Punchong White Slip Coated Flask Jar (분청편병)-16th C.:
Korea, Joseon period, 15th to 16th century.
It’s of flattened circular form, brushed painted freely overall with white slip
over a grayish white glaze, the slop shoulder and the tall straight neck supporting
a lipped mouth, resting on a raised foot ring, probably accidently redish iron spotted
a near foot side and mouth rim during firing which appears more naïve attraction...
A Very Rare/Fine Korean White Bottle Painted Iron Brown with Abstract Floral Design-16th/17th C.:
The tapered, pear form vessel rising from a high ring foot to the short neck and wide mouth
with rolled lip, painted on two opposing sides with abstract floral leaf sprays in underglaze
iron brown, applied in a shiny transparent pure white crackled glaze evenly over the surfaces, small send encrusted on base...
A Fine Inlaid White Slip Punchong Shallow Bowl:
Korea, early Joseon dynasty, 15th -16th century
Ashallowed stoneware bowl tapering to a raised ring foot, decorated with
brushed white slip inlaid with a centural medallion containing a flowerhead
surrounded by bands of “rope-curtain” design and multiful ring patern,
the exterior decotated with also mutiful white slip ring inlays,
beneath a pale celadon glaze.
It’s in fine condition except 2 hair line cracks...
A Very Rare/Fine/Old Korean Bronze Official 3 Horse Warrant: Korea, Joseon dynasty.
Dated 1624.Of circular form, one side with three overlapping horses, the reverse
inscribed ‘the Fourth Year of Cheonki’ and with the seal of Sangseowon. dated 1624
(一六二四), 銅馬牌,《尚瑞院玉字號三馬牌天啓四年三月日》題字，「尚瑞院製」款...
1200s
This bowl was wheel-formed and then pressed into a mold while still soft to create an octagonal form. The soft stoneware clay was then carved and impressed with a stylized chrysanthemum design, allowed to dry, and then covered with a slip of white liquid clay which filled the incising. The residue was wiped or carved off leaving the crisp design in white against the darker clay...
A Very Fine/Rare Beautiful Evenly White Glazed Porcelain Korean Bowl:
Korea, early Joseon period, 18th-19th century, with fitted wooden box.
The characteristic deep bowl with a flat interior bottom and recessed well set on a
ring foot and with gently everted rim, the base glazed, decorated evenly with a beautiful light blue tinged white glaze, .
It’s in very fine condition. it measures 3.5” h. x 6” d. (8.9 cm x 15.3 cm).
A Rare and Fine Early White Porcelain Wine Bottle:
Korea, early Joseon period, 15th century
This small, charming and well portioned bottle applied with a clear blusih white
glaze overall the surfaces including the bottom, the foot rim has some sand adhered.
It’s in good condition but a small part of the rim repaired.
Measurements; 11.7cm x 9cm (4.5” x 3.5”).
A Very Fine and Rare Punchong Inlaid Bowl-15th C.:
Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th century
The conical form set on high ring foot with evenly curved walls riding to a wide
Mouth, decorated in white and black on the interior with a lappet and double ring
Band below a wide band of florets and scroll work, the exterior inlaid in white slip
With another wide band of chrysanthemum florets and section of contiguous leaves
Between lappet and ruyi borders.
It’s in very fine condition with ...
Korean VeryLarge and Fine Sgraffiato Designed Punchong Ware Bottle-15th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th -16th century
Of pear form set on an inset, high ring foot, ornamented with a wide band
of lotus leaves defined by deeply incised lines and a narrow band of lappets,
also created by incised lines and by larger channels scraped away in Sraffiato technique,
both panels separated by incised lines, the body covered overall by a green-tinged
transparent glaze, olive or emerald in the carved ...
Korean Buncheong bowl from the Joseon period (15th century). A wide mouthed bowl is supported on a narrow foot ring. The flared rim is decorated with a grass pattern on both sides. The body is decorated with vertical rows of minute circles to form a flower centered roundel framed by a row of bat like silhouettes and a lotus petal band that also appears on the lower exterior of the body, the glaze layer has a straw color across white slip inlay, the fabric varies from gray on the exterior to g...
A Korean vase dating from the early Joseon period (“Richo” in Japanese; 1392-1897). This particular piece appears to date from the 16th/ 17th century and comes with an antique wood box. The light brown crackled glaze is smooth in the hand and has a warm inviting rustic feel. Several gold repairs can be seen along the upper rim providing a subtle yet noticeable contrast between the rustic glazed clay and the shiny metal. Such pieces have long been favored by learned cha-jin (tea people) and a...
One day Radhanath Swami says 'true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine'.
This chawan is a real true treasure, breathing the love of its artist. It is from the early Joseon Dynasty of Korea. Korean made wan-shaped tea bowl made of ...
A Very Rare Inlaid Punchong Bowl with Celadon Glaze:
Korea, Early Choson period, 15th Century,
This is a shallow Punchong bowl in inlaid black and white slip with willow
and two-three lotus buds between white slip inlaid lines with yo’-i heads.
There are very similar shape and same pattern inlaid bowls vases with celadon glaze
from the late Koryo dynasty. Even if they used the same techniques, motifs and a
same celadon glaze applied, this type of bowls and vase has been called
“pun...
Buncheong ware in a flattened ovoid form with a raised foot finished with a wide flared rim. It is decorated with a creamy colored slip and the faces are painted with a leafy plant in brown slip, all beneath a clear glaze with a faint celadon tint where pooled in drips along the shoulder, the creamy slip and the glaze are also applied within the recessed base. This piece has unique spots as a result of its aging process: water or oil that has been stored in the vessel permeates into the ware cr...
Korean Buncheong ware bowl decorated with four medallions of flowers impressed in the center surrounded by a rope like pattern. The outer side of the bowl is decorated with an incised diagonal stripe pattern. Buncheong is a style where the clay is impressed with a design while still soft, then filled in with a white slip, and then coated with a clear glaze. The Buncheong wares were popular in Korea and in Japan the wares became known as Mishima wares since the 15th century. Age: Joseon Period. S...
A really rare type of chawan: wan shaped tea bowl with a rounded brim, made of light coarse clay. The fine iron bearing clay was nearly fully covered with glaze mixed from wood ash and feldspat.
The iron oxide in the body turned the glaze to a bright orange where thin. The bowl shows a fantastic discoloration from tea as a result of many years of careful use.
This chawan was manufactured in the early stage of the 17th cent. or earlier in the kiln of the Japanese trading ...
A Fine White Slip Inlaid/Rope-Curtain Desgined Punchong Bowl-16th C.:
Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th -16th century
A deep bowl, a raised ring foot, and slightly everted rim, decorated in inlaid
a white slip with a floral medallion, surrounded by “rope curtain” pattern, the sides
similarly decorated, the exterior decorated en suite, beneath a clear pale celadon glaze.
Some parts of the bowl unglazed with celadon accidently, as a result, it appears naïve clay and
white slip inlaid in t...
Flat shaped and elegant modulated Korean Ido chawan from the mid Joseon Period (16-17 century). It is thinly coated with a creamy yellow glaze and very scenic drippings. Shape and form are inspired by the Buncheong Dynasty Gqey yl Chawans a period before.
Great antique condition with two spots of very old gintsugi (kintsugi) gold restoration, with impressing 'kannyu' (crackle) and a high density of 'keshiki' landscape.
This rare tea bowl has also a comfortable feeling of ...
A Very Rare and Fine White Porcelain Jar-15th C.
Korea, early Choson period, 15th century
This jar is extremely rare as a Korean white porcelain from early Choson dynasty.
Of compressed globular form set on a slanted ring foot and with a flated, wide mouth, converted by a transparent glaze with even sheen, slight green tinged white graze appied over the surface and bottom, unglazed and kiln grit aheded on the foot rim.
It has a hair line crack on the botton, which probably occurred during f...
An Extrem. Rare/Fine Korean Punchong Bowl Incised with Character “天” -15th C.:
Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th century.
***This is a one of a kind incised character “天” shallow punching bowl (we can see only a character “天” in the highest quality of white glazed bowls for a Palace use in early Joseon dynasty-15th century). Set on a raised ring foot, and decorated in inlaid white slip, with a flowerhead medallion, surrounded b a wide band of “rope-curtain...
16-17cc Korean Korai Komogai tea bowl which was imported to Japan during Edo Period.
It is very rare to see such bowls on the market.
Komogai is a type of Korai tea bowl. It has a unique appearance with a rounded waist and eversion of the rim of the mouth. The name Komogai was originally the name of a place in Gyeongsangnam-do in the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula, but the reason why it became the name of the tea bowls is not clear. Such bowls are highly prized by Jap...
Ido Ware, Korean Joseon Dynasty (16th-17th century).
The light cream bowl is decorated overall with a crackled cream glaze.
Rustic and sophisticated at the same time, this vessel is another great example of the beauty of Korean Ido chawans.
"Ido" chawan (tea bowl) is the first of three types of famous Japanese Tea Ceremony bowls. A very famous saying in the Tea Ceremony is "First Ido, second Raku, third Karatsu". It means Ido chawan is the highest grade tea bowl. Even th...
A Large/Fine Incised/Sgraffiato Designed Punchong Bottle:
Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th -16th century
Of pear form set on an inset, high ring foot, ornamented with a wide band
of lotus leaves defined by deeply incised lines and a narrow band of lappets,
also created by incised lines and by larger channels scraped away in Sraffiato technique,
both panels separated by incised lines, the body covered overall by a green-tinged
transparent glaze, olive or emerald in the carved and incised areas....
