Room 5

Art from Korea

676–1910, Korea, Unified Silla, Goryeo and Joseon dynasties

Potters of the Goryeo period (918–1392) developed a celadon of delicate grey-green that was praised as the finest in the world even in China, and invented the sanggam inlay technique: cranes and clouds are carved into the clay and filled with white and black slip. In the Joseon period (1392–1910), scholars and court painters painted landscapes, animals and Buddhist images in ink and colour.

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