first half 17th century

Unidentified, Japanese,
Choson period

Stoneware with white slip inlaid under wood-ash glaze
H: 7.9 W: 16.5 cm
Korea

Gift of Charles Lang Freer F1904.113

This bowl incorporates features of earlier tableware bowls made in Korea, but its size and shape suggest that it was made at a southeastern Korean kiln for export to Japan for use as a tea bowl.