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An "Amamori" type Stoneware Bowl
Lot 420

An "Amamori" type Stoneware Bowl

CHOSON PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)

Closed18 March 2008

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USD 3,000

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An "Amamori" type Stoneware Bowl
Choson period (16th century)
Thinly thrown on the wheel with evenly proportioned curved walls balanced on a small circular foot and ending in an everted rim, covered with a thin transparent glaze with dense crackle and clouds and spots of staining known in Japan as amamori (leaky roof)
5 5/8in. (14.3cm.) diameter; 2½in. (6.4cm.) high

Specialist note

Wheel-thrown, slender-walled wares with the natural cloud and spot staining that appear on this vessel are known in Japan as amamori after the pattern stains leave on a roof after it has leaked. Acquiring their stains from repeated use, the wares have been prized in tea circles for centuries.