That's such a beautiful bowl,
@iGo. (Thanks for waking up the thread,
@bliss.) If you're ever in the mood for another photo session, I'd love to see more of it. (BTW, we seem to have similar tastes in board games as well as pottery.)
It's a style of Jian ware (Tenmoku/Tianmu) called hare's fur or rabbit's fur. Here's
a Song dynasty original (12th century). I've seen descriptions distinguishing black hare's fur, blue hare's, and silver hare's fur. Seems you can find modern imitations at various prices in Japan, China, Taiwan, and, as I'm learning now, Korea. Here's an
exquisite chawan by a famous Kyo-ware potter, Yoshinori Izumi (there are other items from this series of his, such as my most treasured teaware possession in the form of a
sake cup; see also
@pedant's
stunning images of his.) This is a perhaps somewhat kitschy but still engaging gilded example of a smaller (non-matcha)
teacup from Taiwan, sold on pinkoi (no idea if it's actually worth that price). There are many others, incl. sub-$1 mass produced ware, as you can see in
@LeoFox's
Instagram post.
Do you (or anybody else) know of a good source to obtain an authentic, handmade Korean tea cup in this style? I'm making a small collection, with a Taiwanese and a Mainland China version on the way per post. I think it would be cool to be able to serve 4 cups in the same style from 4 different countries.