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<em>Vase</em>, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)
Vase, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)
<em>Vase</em>, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)

Vase, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)

<em>Vase</em>, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view2_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

Vase, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view2_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

<em>Vase</em>, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view3_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

Vase, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view3_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

<em>Vase</em>, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_base_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

Vase, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_base_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

<em>Vase</em>, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_top_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

Vase, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_top_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH.jpg)

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Vase

Asian Art

On View: Asian Galleries, South, 2nd floor
Vases of this shape, known as maebyeong in Korean and meiping in Chinese, were used for display of single branches from flowering trees. These examples represent two early attempts to add another color to celadon-glazed ceramics. The clouds on one vase were painted directly onto the gray body in liquid white clay (slip) and then covered with the nearly clear green glaze. Although appropriate for the depiction of clouds, this kind of watery, freehand decoration would prove to be difficult to control and would be replaced soon after by inlaid decoration. The iron-brown painting on the other vase was also applied under the glaze, and in this case the iron affected the color of the glaze—another problem that would be alleviated by the invention of inlaid decoration.
This text refers to these objects: 2004.28.116; 76.43
MEDIUM Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting
  • Place Made: Korea
    • DATES 12th century
    DYNASTY Goryeo dynasty
    DIMENSIONS 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Asian Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 2004.28.116
    CREDIT LINE The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection
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    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Asian Galleries, South, 2nd floor
    CAPTION Vase, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)
    IMAGE side, CUR.2004.28.116_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), 2005
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    <em>Vase</em>, 12th century. Stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze iron painting, 11 x 5 7/8 in. (28 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.116. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea), CUR.2004.28.116_view1_Heon-Kang_photo_NRICH_edited.jpg)

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    Korea
    Korean
    underglaze
    chrysanthemum
    vine design
    iron dioxide
    Goryeo dynasty
    Celadon
    Vase
    12th century
    Maebyeong
    Lotus
    Petals

    TAGS

    Korea
    Korean
    underglaze
    chrysanthemum
    vine design
    iron dioxide
    Goryeo dynasty
    Celadon
    Vase
    12th century
    Maebyeong
    Lotus
    Petals

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