Author: KUNDÍ, SAWADA (Ed.) / SAWADA, SIICHIRO (Artist):
Title: Ch sen ko t jiki-sh Collection of antique Korean ceramics. Kyoto, Uns›do, Taisho 13 (1924).
Description: . Oblong album with 32 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. With thirty double-page illustrations of Korean ceramics and/or porcelain. Beautiful woodcuts printed in various gentle colours with captions in Japanese. Some discolouration. Original decorated paper wrappers, lightly rubbed with some minor chipping along edges. Old ex-owner's sticker (partly erased) on front cover. Black ink inscription on the spine. The album contains beautiful designs of old Korean pottery wares such as urns, jars, bowls, plates and tiles. Most of them are from the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392 AD) but some are from the Three Kingdoms period (57BC - 668 AD) and the later Silla period (668-935 AD). Korea, along with China, was the earliest country to produce high-fired stoneware. During the Three Kingdoms wares were produced in a tunnel-shaped wood-fired climbing kiln with a temperature more than 1000 degrees C. The chamber enabled an oxygen control. The characteristic soft gray colour of the stoneware of the Three Kingdoms period is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the chamber. The pottery became hard and non-porous. The finest works of ceramics in Korea, Cheongia (celadon) wares, were produced in the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). This work based on field studies of Korean ceramics was published at a time when interest of folk art was increasing in Japan. Mingei, developed in 1920s, was a movement with the aim of preserving folk art in Japan. The movement was initiated by Yanagi S›etsu, a Japanese philosopher and aesthete who travelled to Korea in 1916 and there discovered common wares made by local Korean artisans. He established a Korean Folk Craft Museum in Seoul.
Keywords: East Asia, korea, corean, korean, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, porcelain, woodblock, illustrated, art, ceramics, stoneware, mingei,
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Title: Ch sen ko t jiki-sh Collection of antique Korean ceramics. Kyoto, Uns›do, Taisho 13 (1924).
Description: . Oblong album with 32 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. With thirty double-page illustrations of Korean ceramics and/or porcelain. Beautiful woodcuts printed in various gentle colours with captions in Japanese. Some discolouration. Original decorated paper wrappers, lightly rubbed with some minor chipping along edges. Old ex-owner's sticker (partly erased) on front cover. Black ink inscription on the spine. The album contains beautiful designs of old Korean pottery wares such as urns, jars, bowls, plates and tiles. Most of them are from the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392 AD) but some are from the Three Kingdoms period (57BC - 668 AD) and the later Silla period (668-935 AD). Korea, along with China, was the earliest country to produce high-fired stoneware. During the Three Kingdoms wares were produced in a tunnel-shaped wood-fired climbing kiln with a temperature more than 1000 degrees C. The chamber enabled an oxygen control. The characteristic soft gray colour of the stoneware of the Three Kingdoms period is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the chamber. The pottery became hard and non-porous. The finest works of ceramics in Korea, Cheongia (celadon) wares, were produced in the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). This work based on field studies of Korean ceramics was published at a time when interest of folk art was increasing in Japan. Mingei, developed in 1920s, was a movement with the aim of preserving folk art in Japan. The movement was initiated by Yanagi S›etsu, a Japanese philosopher and aesthete who travelled to Korea in 1916 and there discovered common wares made by local Korean artisans. He established a Korean Folk Craft Museum in Seoul.
Keywords: East Asia, korea, corean, korean, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, porcelain, woodblock, illustrated, art, ceramics, stoneware, mingei,
Price: EUR 2000.00 = appr. US$ 2173.69 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 121249
- Book number: 121249
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