Vintage antique Korean 6½ inch traditional brass bowl

Description

Vintage antique Korean 6½ inch traditional brass bowl.
Korean brass typically is solid, heavy, well-cast, takes a fine luster when polished.
It produces a very beautiful long-lasting bell sound when struck with a fingernail.
Usually individually cast and produced, so such bowls are seldom exactly the in size or appearance.
The bowl is 6½ inches across and 2¼ inches high
It shows very fine machining lines where the rough surface of the cast brass was ground off to give a smooth surface.
The bowl was purchased by the seller in Korea in the 1970s at a time when many Korean rural residents, tired of polishing their brass, were bringing it in to the city and turning it in for stainless steel.  The maker's seal on the bottom includes a character (though inverted) in "hangul," the Korean alphabet,
which means the bowl was probably cast after Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945.
The bowl itself is in excellent condition, with only very minor age spots.
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Shipping by USPS Padded Flat Rate Envelope.