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1392–1600 CEIn-depth study

Buncheong jar decorated with peonies, Korea, late fifteenth century. Museum photograph of surviving ceramic work, with incised and sgraffito decoration.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Rogers Fund, 1916 · 16.122.1 · Public domain / CC0 · Resized to WebP · Licence terms

Asia / Culture

Early Joseon Korea: writing, belief and the potter’s art

Early Joseon rulers and scholars reshaped institutions and cultural patronage. A new alphabet and inventive ceramics belong to this history alongside the court’s Neo-Confucian programme.

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