Tea Bowl

13th century

This round ceramic bowl has a distinctive brown glaze. The lip is black and the rim immediately under it is bronze brown. From there, copper-orange rivulets trickle down the sides of the bowl and intermingle with black veins below. The bottom of the bowl has an uneven, wavy base. The bowl is photographed against a background that lightens from gray along the top to white along the bottom.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Harry G. Steele [1881-1942], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele [d. 1974]; gift 1972 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 34-35, color repro.

Inscriptions

incised on the base: liu (six)

Wikidata ID

Q62286888

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