Yangonmyeongsui Pottery Pyeonho

This pyeonho (a flattened, flask-shaped vessel) is a piece of hard stoneware, built up by coiling clay over a flat base, with both sides of the body beaten flat, after which animal-face designs were carved on both shoulders. Where part of the rim is broken, it can be seen that only the surface was fired red under reducing conditions, and that the reducing heat did not reach the interior. The surface as a whole is thinly covered with a natural ash glaze, giving it a black lustre. An unusual feature of this piece is the inscription 'Yangon' (良醞), incised on the shoulder, which shows that this vessel was one of the wine-storage containers of the Yangonseo, the office responsible for brewing and supplying wine to the royal court in the Goryeo period. Only a few examples of celadon bearing this government-office name have been known so far, and no such example has yet been found among stoneware. Judging from its form, overall material and inscription, this pyeonho appears to have been made in the 13th–14th century, and given its rarity, it is an important resource for the study of ceramic history.

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Where it is

Region

Jongno-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산