Bowl

Like many of the other tea bowls arranged on the mantel of the Peacock Room in 1908, this example, dating to the sixteenth century, was produced in Korea for a Japanese market. Freer found it, along with a number of similar examples, at the Fifth Avenue branch of Yamanaka and Company. Although many Western collectors of Asian ceramics favored highly decorated porcelains, Freer preferred the relatively simple forms and coarse textures of stoneware.