Word: koryo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Korea's ceramic tradition is as impressive as China's, the smaller country naturally has a more monolithic tradition. The exhibit creates a coherent chronology by dividing the tradition into its four historical periods: the Three Kingdoms Period (57 B.C.A.D. 668), the United Silla Period (668-935), the Koryo Dynasty (918-1392) and the Choson Dynasty...
...subsequent two periods, the Koryo Dynasty and the Choson Dynasty, Korean ceramics start to look like what most Western viewers would expect of Oriental ceramics. The collection of wares on display from these two periods are truly magnificent, and they stand as premier examples of the differing traditions of Korean and Chinese ceramics. In the Koryo Period, Korean potters perfected the technique of celadon glazing. Celsdon wares, glazed in a blue to green glaze, started in China and traveled into Korea. The celadon glazes, which gain their color from iron compounds contained in the glaze, were well suited as glazes...