AH 0102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Celadon, Buncheong, Chinese Ceramics
12 May 2018
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Notes for Day 16: April 3, 2018
Goryeo and Joseon Korea (Review) and Japanese 16th century
Announcements:
• Read assigned chapter by a ceramics historian (materialistic approach)
Goals for today:
• Focus on technique and form of certain ceramic wares especially in different traditions
and cultures
Bowls used for formal in class short essay:
• Both are Korean pieces
• The bowl on the left is a Goryeo dynasty (high-fired) stoneware with Celadon and mold-
impressed decoration (12th century)
• The jar on the right is from the Joseon dynasty, it is a Buncheong ware from the early 16th
century and late 15th century, created with a white slip and iron brown floral scrolls to fit
the aesthetic at the time; it is a common ware and was produced for local and regional
government
Korean celadons:
• The technique used: inlaid decorations in cracks or carved out areas before the ware is
fired—seen in the right celadon ware
Korean celadon Goryeo dynasty:
• Stoneware with celadon glaze
• Forms echo earlier Chinese ceramics
• Patrons are court and aristocracy
• Produced in official kilns
• Signature technique: inlaid decoration (sanggam)
o Make the vessel, set to dry
o Incise decoration into leather hard clay
o Biscuit fire
More examples of Goryeo celadon:
• 6 lobed bowl with no mold
Korean Buncheong ware early Joseon Dynasty:
• Produced during 15th and 16 centuries
• Use of white slip
• Stoneware with incised, slip, and sgraffito decoration with green semi-translucent glaze
• Patronized by common people as well as government officials
• Less “refined” than porcelain and celadon, more experimental; widespread production,
not confined to one kiln; production end with Japanese invasion in late 16th century
• Prized by Japanese tea masters
• Related to celadon
• Thick potted
• White slip is added to the jar or bowl prior to drying and carving to make a white color
that reflects the green celadon color
Contempory iterations of Korean celadon and Buncheong ware:
• Long-Necked Bottle and Chaos
• These pieces are made today and their potters are named and known
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