Korean Ceramics Book

In the early stoneware riutual vessels used in korea and japan were very similar due to a shared culture.

Korean ceramics book.

Korea boasts a ceramics history that dates back 10 000 years. Very charming story of how a japanese collector came to love korean ceramics. Korean ceramic history begins with the oldest earthenware dating to around 8000 bc. It gives a behind the scenes view of how influenced the japanese were by korean ceramics.

Korean bronze age pottery tends to be undecorated walls are thicker and there is a greater variety of shapes typically steamers bowls with pedestals and jars with handles. Through a continued mutual exchange with china korea developed a ceramics style that captured the korean spirit. When there is decoration it covers less of the vessel and takes either the form of the incised motifs of the previous period or applied clay bands. The book is written from the viewpoint of the different worlds korea experienced from pre history to the present day with the changing needs for and utility of the ceramics themselves.

Influenced by chinese ceramics korean pottery developed a distinct style of its own with its own shapes such as the moon jar or maebyeong version of the chinese meiping vase and later styles of painted decoration. This is one of the best books on korean ceramics in english. Korean ceramic trends had an influence on japanese pottery and porcelain.