The white porcelain of Chosen Dynasty has been recognized as an important cultural inheritance representing Korean industrial art, and the white pocelain painted in underglaze iron, with the white and blue porcelain, is an important genre of Chosen wh...
The white porcelain of Chosen Dynasty has been recognized as an important cultural inheritance representing Korean industrial art, and the white pocelain painted in underglaze iron, with the white and blue porcelain, is an important genre of Chosen white porcelains which expresses great picturesque patterns.
Despite the high evaluation for a long time, the existence of the white porcelain painted in underglaze iron has not been considered as much as that of the white and blue white porcelain.
However, with the help of the academic research and development and from the viewpoint which puts more value on things with Korean flavor, the importance of white porcelain painted in underglaze iron in porcelain history is ganining attention again.
Also, the meaning of white porcelain fainted in underglaze iron with a free-style pattern and a simple shape is increasing since it expresses time invariant art with creativity and awareness of beauty of Chosun Dynasty.
On the other hand, vast amounts of research topics have been presented by the long production period of white porcelain painted in underglaze iron ranging from the beginning of Chosun Dynasty to 18 centry, which is discovered through the study of Kwanju govermental kiln, and by white porcelain painted in underglaze iron pieces collected in white porcelain kiln all over the country.
This theses, as a basic research step, studies the development and the position of white porcelain painted in underglaze iron in Chosen porcelain history by establishing a period of white porcelain painted in underglaze iron in the stream of white porcelain development and by the characteristics of shapes and patterns of white porcelain painted in underglaze iron.