Accession Number
2009/2.42

Title
Footed Bowl

Artist(s)
Korean

Artist Nationality
Korean (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
19th century

Medium & Support
glazed stoneware

Dimensions
3 11/16 x 4 3/16 x 4 3/16 in. (9.3 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Ok Ja Chang and the Chang Family

Physical Description
A tall stoneware bowl with a short, tapered cylindrical base. The bowl itself curves into a flat bottom where it meets the foot-base.

The high iron content in the clay and glaze of this bowl produces a green-brown colour. In the Honam region (southwestern region including Jeollabuk-do and Jeollanam-do), the potters produced many vessels with celadon clay in the typical shapes of the white porcelain, thus resulting in the colors that resembles that of green celadon. This bowl is green-brown in color but has transparent glaze, giving it a very shiny surface. The entire foot was glazed, while there are eight sand spur marks on the foot rim. It was slightly deformed in the kiln, with the result the rim is not completely horizontal.
[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.195]

Primary Object Classification
Ceramic

Primary Object Type
bowl

Collection Area
Asian

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Korean (culture or style)
bowls (vessels)
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ritual vessels
stoneware (pottery)