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    Korean pottery has a long history dating back 7-8,000 years. Early Korean pottery was fired at lower temperatures than in China and Vietnam. During the Silla period in the 9th century, celadon pottery production developed under Chinese influence. Celadon from the Goryeo dynasty was highly praised. In the 15th century, unique stoneware called "PunChong" emerged. During the Japanese invasions of the 16th century, many Korean potters were taken to Japan, spreading Korean pottery techniques. White porcelain replaced celadon in the 17th century Joseon dynasty, reflecting Confucian ideals of simplicity. Throughout, Korean pottery was shaped by natural influences and simple

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    Korean pottery has a long history dating back 7-8,000 years. Early Korean pottery was fired at lower temperatures than in China and Vietnam. During the Silla period in the 9th century, celadon pottery production developed under Chinese influence. Celadon from the Goryeo dynasty was highly praised. In the 15th century, unique stoneware called "PunChong" emerged. During the Japanese invasions of the 16th century, many Korean potters were taken to Japan, spreading Korean pottery techniques. White porcelain replaced celadon in the 17th century Joseon dynasty, reflecting Confucian ideals of simplicity. Throughout, Korean pottery was shaped by natural influences and simple

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    Korean pottery has a long history dating back 7-8,000 years. Early Korean pottery was fired at lower temperatures than in China and Vietnam. During the Silla period in the 9th century, celadon pottery production developed under Chinese influence. Celadon from the Goryeo dynasty was highly praised. In the 15th century, unique stoneware called "PunChong" emerged. During the Japanese invasions of the 16th century, many Korean potters were taken to Japan, spreading Korean pottery techniques. White porcelain replaced celadon in the 17th century Joseon dynasty, reflecting Confucian ideals of simplicity. Throughout, Korean pottery was shaped by natural influences and simple

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    Korean pottery has a long history dating back 7-8,000 years. Early Korean pottery was fired at lower temperatures than in China and Vietnam. During the Silla period in the 9th century, celadon pottery production developed under Chinese influence. Celadon from the Goryeo dynasty was highly praised. In the 15th century, unique stoneware called "PunChong" emerged. During the Japanese invasions of the 16th century, many Korean potters were taken to Japan, spreading Korean pottery techniques. White porcelain replaced celadon in the 17th century Joseon dynasty, reflecting Confucian ideals of simplicity. Throughout, Korean pottery was shaped by natural influences and simple

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    Korean Pottery

    The Korean Pottery


    • 10,000 to 6,000 years ago, the mankind
    started to make a earthenware and use
    them.
    • In Korea, they have used earthen ware
    from 7~8,000years ago-the New Stone
    Age.
    The Korean Pottery
    • Earlier times:
    – pottery firing temperature is at 1,100 degrees
    – In countries:
    • Korea
    • China
    • and Vietnam
    • pottery in firing temperature at 1,300 degrees.
    The Korean Pottery
    • 9th century: Silla times
    – They have had great opportunity of trade with
    China
    – Accepted manufacturing technology of
    Celadon
    • The celadon that has started made in the unity
    Silla times and developed. And it was the most
    beautiful celadon as Chinese said " The Koryo` s
    celadon is wonderful."
    The Korean Pottery
    • The celadon of Koryo
    dynasty was splendid
    and elegant because
    it is influenced by
    Buddhism and
    nobles.
    The Korean Pottery
    • In China, jade signifies
    the true gentleman,
    wealth and honor.
    • It also has religious value,
    guaranteeing life after
    death and warding off
    demons.
    • Therefore jade was
    popular for use in objects
    enclosed in tombs.
    Celadon
    • Artisans tried to create jade
    from clay, and the result was
    the pottery known in the West
    as Celadon
    • First produced in China in the
    Three Kingdoms and the
    Warring Kingdoms periods.
    • In Korea, Chinese celadon
    pottery has been found in
    tombs dating from the 4-6th
    centuries, suggesting that the
    royal family of the period
    imported celadon from China
    as a substitute for jade.
    The Korean Pottery
    • Celadon disappeared
    from the end of Koryo
    dynasty.
    • In the course of from
    celadon to white
    ware,there is the stone
    ware pottery known as
    "PunChong.", is very
    characteristic and
    wonderful in 15th century
    of Korea.
    PunChong

    • This characteristic PunChong stone ware went


    to Japan during Korea and Japan war in 16th
    century and it became a staring point of
    developing of pottery in Japan.
    The Korean Pottery
    • At that time of Japan , they have used earthen
    ware ,because they could not produced pottery.
    When Japan invaded Korea in the 1590s,
    Japanese called the " Pottery war "and they took
    many Korean potters back to Japan.
    The Korean Pottery
    • Among these potters, there was one potter
    who named "Yi SamPyong." And
    Japanese called him the father of pottery
    in Japan.
    • As a result of Korea and Japan war,
    PunChong ware almost completely
    disappeared from Korea, due to the lack of
    potters, the destruction of kilns.
    The Korean Pottery
    • The Choson in 17th century, the white-
    clad Korea, they produced the white ware
    has its own purity, chastity and modesty.
    • The white ware was loved by classical
    scholars of Choson and it developed
    industrial arts with humor and witin
    elegance.
    White Ware
    • Celadon passed from favor
    and was inevitably replaced
    by white porcelain.
    • This process began in China
    in the 14th century.
    • At the same time in Korea,
    white pottery began to
    replace silverware in the
    households of the new royal
    family.
    • As they followed Confucian
    precepts and tried to discover
    reality simply and soberly.
    The Korean Pottery
    • The Korean pottery, by base of good natural
    disposition, has clear and characteristic, the
    shape is healthy and live.
    • The Korean potters lived in deep recesses of
    mountains and content to be part of nature, one
    with nature.
    • They find the beauty in simple colors and liberal
    molding .
    • They accomplished characteristic pottery arts in
    this beauty.
    The Korean Pottery
    Reference:
    • Korean Pottery. Retrieved from
    http://www.koreafolkart.com/efrm1.htm.
    March 7, 2007

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