This bowl, of robust form and decoration, is a fine example of early punch'ong ware, a type of pottery developed in the fifteenth century that is uniquely Korean. The decoration, under a light green transparent glaze, consists of carved and stamped designs filled with white slip. The treatment of the boldly rendered peony scroll is typical of the fifteenth-century style in Korean art. The pattern of concentric bands of tiny chrysanthemum leaves in the center of the bowl was stamped in the clay and inlaid.