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Fun Fact

As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite leisure culture in Korea.

Description

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 image of flying parrots incised on the inner wall of this tea bowl must have made the moment of drinking tea more enjoyable and even magical.

Citations

Korean Celadons, the Best under Heaven [천하제일 비색청자]. Seoul : National Museum of Korea, 2012.

Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.

Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.

Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon [高麗青磁 : ヒスイのきらめき]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka: Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, 2018.

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sŏn Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 71-72, no. 64

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, (3/27-8/28/11); "The Lure of Painted Poetry" cat. no. 64

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl with Incised Parrot Design

청자 음각 앵무새 무늬 사발 (靑磁陰刻鸚鵡文碗)

Korea, Goryeo period

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