Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Ferenczy, László: The Collection of Corean Industrial Art. A Gift of the Corean People's Democratic Republic

Fig. 5. Woman playing an old instrument. Puppet while the Corean porcelains are lighter and thinner painted. Very popular motives were landscapes, different birds and flowers, existing or fantastic animals, among them first of all the dragon. The finest blue and white porcelains were made in the manufactory of the state at Kwangyoo in Kyongii province. Porcelains made for the King's palace were controlled by state supervisors every autumn. State manufactories working with more developed technical methods and with more experienced masters, could deliver much more perfect and refined wares than the small provincial ones. But at the end of the I-period, in consequence of political and economic difficulties, imperial manufactories could not maintain their former technical level and provincial manufactories produced more characteristic wares of higher perfection. The blue and white vase of the collection is of the time when porcelain making was strongly on the decline in Corea. As to textiles, we have to mention two complete dresses, showing the traditional and the modern national costumes, in the first place.