Korea
Goryeo celadon, buncheong and Joseon white porcelain, the dawan, juja and dagwan, and the darye tea rite
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Shapes 5#
- 찻잔Korean teacupA Korean cup for drinking tea. Cups vary in profile and material, and may be used with a saucer or stand depending on the setting.sources cited
- 다관Korean teapotA Korean teapot used to steep and pour leaf tea. Handle position, body shape and material vary; the pictured example does not define the whole tradition.sources cited
- 다완Korean tea bowlA bowl for tea, above all for whisking powdered tea. The Encyclopedia of Korean Culture counts celadon tea bowls among Goryeo tea wares and describes whisking powdered tea in a chasabal. Plain Joseon bowls made for everyday use in the south of the peninsula were taken into Japanese tea from the sixteenth century as Kōrai and Ido bowls.sources cited
- 숙우Water-cooling bowlThe vessel into which boiled water is poured to cool before it goes into the teapot. The Encyclopedia of Korean Culture says a white porcelain bowl is often used; Korean Wikipedia describes it as a bowl with a pouring lip.sources cited
- 주자Spouted ewerA spouted ewer for holding and pouring liquids. Korean celadon examples include plant-shaped vessels, sometimes paired with a basin that helped keep their contents warm. Some ewers belong to tea preparation, but their shape alone does not establish whether an individual vessel held tea, water or wine. National Museum of Koreasources cited
Wares 6#
- 분청사기Buncheong wareEarly Joseon stoneware: a grey body coated with refined white slip under a pale, green-tinted glaze, made for about two hundred years in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.draft
- 고려청자Goryeo celadonGrey-green glazed ceramics of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), fired mostly in kilns on the southwest coast at Gangjin and Buan.draft
- 이천 도자기Icheon ceramicsA modern ceramics centre in Gyeonggi Province, with about 420 workshops according to the city. Its ceramics village grew up after the Yeongdong Expressway opened and was said to make about a third of Korea's ceramics.draft
- 조선백자Joseon white porcelainWhite-bodied porcelain under a clear glaze, fired at 1300–1350 °C, and the main court ware of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910).draft
- 문경 도자기Mungyeong ceramicsA ceramics area in North Gyeongsang, around Jinan-ri, Gwaneum-ri and Galpyeong-ri, where local clays are plentiful.draft
- 여주 도자기Yeoju ceramicsA ceramics centre in Gyeonggi Province with about 600 kilns around Ogeum-ri and Hyeonam-ri, according to the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, which also describes the local kaolin as the country's best raw material.draft