Tea Caddy with Stamped Floral Decoration
1600–1699
- Medium
- glazed stoneware with stamped and incised inlaid white slip decoration
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
About
This small jar may have been used as a container for powdered tea among Japanese tea drinkers. Possibly produced in one of the kilns established by the trading office (Waegwan) in Busan, southern Gyeongsang province, this type of tea ware may have sold to Japanese tea bowl collectors. According to a historical record dated to 1641, a trading boat shipped more than 14,000 tea bowls to Japan.