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As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite leisure culture in Korea. 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 cranes amid clouds that decorate the inner wall of this tea bowl is considered an auspicious sign particularly about the king's good governance.
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103678
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Bowl with Inlaid Cranes and Clouds Design
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103678
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Bowl with Inlaid Cranes and Clouds Design
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As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite leisure culture in Korea. 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 cranes amid clouds that decorate the inner wall of this tea bowl is considered an auspicious sign particularly about the king's good governance.
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1200s–1300s
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en
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Q79508575
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Ceramic
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Diameter of mouth: 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.); Overall: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.)
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Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
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1921.629
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Bowl with Inlaid Cranes and Clouds Design (청자 상감 구름·학무늬 사발 [靑磁陽刻雲鶴文碗]), 1200s–1300s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Pottery; diameter of mouth: 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.); overall: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1921.629
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청자 상감 구름·학무늬 사발 [靑磁陽刻雲鶴文碗]
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Korean Art
didYouKnow
An actual event in 1121, which constitutes a groups of cranes hovering above the palace in Kaifeng, the capital of the Chinese Northern Song dynasty, soon became internationally recognized as a heavenly sign about the ruler's virtuous governance.
citations
citation
<em>Goryeo: The Glory of Korea </em>[대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.
citation
Lee, Young-hee. "The Study on Techniques and their Interrelations among Craft Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 공예기법 연구 상호관련성을 중심으로]." <em>Misulsa hakbo</em> 22 (2004): 133-170.
citation
Yi, Jongmin. "The New Trends on the latter 14th Century's Inlaid Celadon of Koryŏ Dynasty [14世紀後半高麗象嵌靑磁의新傾向]." <em>Korean Journal of Art History </em>vol. 3 (1994): 5–40.
citation
<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
citation
Jang, Namwon. "The Tea and Celadons during the Goryeo Dynasty : Considering the Celadon Tea Utensils [고려시대 茶文化와 靑瓷]."<em> Art History Forum</em> (June 2007): 129–162.
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Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. <em>The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.
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Mentioned and reproduced: P. 72
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Gift of John L. Severance
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2026-05-29 05:35:42.797000
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103678
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Korean Art
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Korean Art
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