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he same form of jar as cats. 48, 103, and 104, this vessel is
Tmade of porcelain coated in a clear glaze with a bluish-
green tint. Like cats. 48 and 103, this jar may also have been
made at kilns near Mount Gyeryong in South Chungcheong
Province, where shards of porcelain have been discovered
along with black wares and buncheong wares coated in white
slip and painted with iron oxide. 1
The production of porcelain in Korea came to maturity by
the reign of King Sejong (1418–50). A contemporary fif-
49. teenth-century source states that porcelain was used exclu-
Jar sively by the royal household at this time. Before this, most
2
Second half of 15th–16th century, Joseon of the porcelain used in Korea was imported from China.
TL results: fired between 400 & 700 years ago In 1466, in the reign of King Sejo (1455–68), an order was
Porcelain given stating porcelain was to be produced only by order of
H: 14 cm, W: 16.5 cm the royal household. However, this injunction is unlikely to
3
have lasted much longer than Sejo’s reign. As this jar is prob-
ably not of sufficient quality for royal use, it was mostly likely
made after the porcelain prohibition of 1466 but before the
end of production at the Mount Gyeryong kilns in the late
sixteenth century.

1 G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period (New York: Frederick A.
Praeger, 1968), 71.
2 Ibid., 15-16.
3 Ibid., 44-45.

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