Kintsugi ("golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered goldsilver, or platinum...As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise...

More succinctly, finding (or creating) beauty and value in imperfection. The bowl was worthless, more so when it was cracked, but the repair elevated it to an object of art...

Link: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

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