Mishima Type Stoneware Bowl

White Inlayed Calender Pattern Dish with Floral and Inscription Center.

Early Yi Dynasty (15th-16th Century)

20cm D x 10cm H

This bowl has long sloping sides and a slightly everted mouth and short base. Wavy sprays of grass are featured running across the mouth rim and a ‘rope curtain’ of dots resembling coarsely woven fabric covers the interior and exterior walls. Encircled in a ring of uniform lotus petals, the inside bottom of the bowl has a stamped flower against a bouquet of smaller flowers and inscription of what appears to be Sanskrit. The earthy colour scheme of greys and creams creates a rustic impression and compliments the design motifs taken from nature.

This particular type of buncheong ware is associated with a number if Kiln sites in South Cholla Province.

Similar Example: the National Museum of Korea shown in 5000 Years of Korean Art, 1981, pp111. (without inscription)