Crooked Beauty
- Tea bowl
- Kôyama Kiyoko (b. 1936)
- Stoneware with natural ash glaze
- Shigaraki, Japan, ca. 2000
- Gift of the artist, UMMA 2010/1.215
With its irregular glaze and visible inclusions on the rough, unglazed surfaces, this contemporary tea bowl by renowned potter Kôyama Kiyoko perfectly embodies the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi—beauty in imperfection.