Bowl
- DATE:
- 1127–1279
- MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE:
- Ceramic with Temmoku glaze
- CLASSIFICATION:
- Containers
- DIMENSIONS:
- Height: 3 in. (7.62 cm) Diameter: 7 5/8 in. (19.368 cm)
- DEPARTMENT:
- Arts of Asia
- LOCATION:
- Arts of Asia - China, Level 3
- CREDIT LINE:
- Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. Alex Camp in memory of Mrs. A.C. Bigger
- OBJECT NUMBER:
- 1971.15
General Description
This Song tea bowl is covered in a dark temmoku glaze, which offset the green color of the tea. Such cups have a deliberately casual appearance though they are in fact works of considerable technical complexity.
Adapted from
Anne Bromberg, Dallas Museum of Art: Selected Works (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1984), 84.