Mishima Tea Bowl by Kim Young-sik — Joseon-yo, Mungyeong

A mishima tea bowl — Korean buncheong with stamped and inlaid white slip — by Kim Young-sik of Joseon-yo, one of the established kilns of Mungyeong, Korea's traditional tea-bowl valley.

Mungyeong potters still work the way the bowls that reached 16th-century Japan were made: local clay, a kick wheel, and a climbing wood kiln. In mishima, the leather-hard bowl is pressed with small stamps and the impressions filled with white slip, then scraped back so the pattern reads like fine script across the surface. A quieter, more traditional bowl than its price suggests.

Details

• Potter: Kim Young-sik (김영식), Joseon-yo, Mungyeong
• Buncheong stoneware with stamped and inlaid slip · Size: Ø14.5 × H7.5 cm
• Signed · Single piece

Watch: a climbing kiln in Mungyeong

A firing in one of Mungyeong's traditional climbing wood kilns, where the valley's tea bowls are still made. (A general introduction — not this specific piece.)

Please read before ordering

• One of a kind. We confirm the piece is still available with the dealer within one business day; if it has sold we refund in full immediately.
• Offered as a collector's piece. It has not been tested to U.S. FDA lead-release standards for ceramic foodware.
• Ships from New Jersey in 2–3 weeks, double-boxed. Price includes all import duties. Fully insured, signature required.