Page 44 - Korean Buncheong Ceramics, Samsung Museum Collection (great book)

Figure 1.9 Gwangju National Museum excavation of a kiln site at Chunghyo-dong, Gwangju, south Jeolla Province;
note stratum of waste deposit with shards and larger pottery fragments.

inscribed; the inscriptions included the characters gwang (presumably the first character of
Gwangju), gong (presumably the first character of gongnap [tributary tax]), san (mountain), and
jeong yun yi (interpreted as Yun Yi, the leap month [February] of the Jeongyu year [1477]).
The excavated materials suggest that the Chunghyo-dong kilns operated from the early
fifteenth until the early sixteenth century. The site attests to the development and transformation
of buncheong in terms of quality and decorative modes: in the second half of the fifteenth century,
buncheong with incised and sgraffito designs was popular; from the end of the fifteenth to the early
sixteenth century, the kilns produced slip-brushed buncheong and a small quantity of porcelain.
The kilns also show the early production of porcelain and the relationship between these two types
of early Joseon ceramics. After Chunghyo-dong, perhaps the best-known area of buncheong

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