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
tween 1945 and 1950 already and it has been in swift development since the middle of the fifties. The collection donated to the Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts unites mostly objects made in Phenyang in the years after 1950 by masters of folk's art, but some objects, as jewels, furnitures, a vase, an ink-rubbing stone, a bow, a quiver, originate from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Among other branches of industrial art metal works are represented in greater abundance than others. Some pieces of the festive set, consisting of thirty pieces of brass, are made in the style of the Koryo- and I-periods. The covered cups for rice, soup, pickles in different sizes were used at receptions or marriage ceremonies. The sinsolo cooking vessel was used for the preparation of a special Corean food. It served for cooking the food from inside the vessel on the table during the repast, by charcoal. The vessel called hab was used for serving ricebread and bakery. Tyanban was a plate for serving hot food in cups. One of the most important pieces of the marriage portion of girls was the small brass plate for washing. Pans of copper, bronze or earthenware served for preparing food and heating the spare-room. The pot of rice-wine is made of silver, with the joint pair of cups and an eating service, used at marriages. The ceramic art is represented by eleven pieces of vases and pots of differently shaped porcelain. With one exception they are copies of Koryo-age vessels with celadon glazes. Corean ceramic art attained a very high level at the time of the Three Kingdoms . The best celadons of the Koryo period were made in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In the I-period, after the porcelain wares came into general use, the earlier sorts of pottery fell into oblivion. During the Japanese occupation the potters oîKeson made the finest wares of porcelain, imitating the technique of the Koryo-age. The chief ceramic products of the Koryo-period were the greyish and bluish green-glazed stoneware vessels. Owing to their likeness to Chinese celadons brought to Europe they also were named "celadons", while Coreans called them Koryo-ki. This technique spread, on the steps of Chinese potters of the Sung time, throughout Corea and became soon popular there. The workshops supplied the needs of the whole country. A great deal was exported to Japan. 'They excelled by their refined multifarious form, simplicity, decoration of noble design and principally the bluish-green glaze, reminding the Coreans •of the somewhat foggy autumn sky. The great popularity of celadon wares was due to this fact as well as to their similarity to jade. The producing of celadon-glazed pottery required a well founded technological knowledge. They were burnt at a high, 800—1200 degree of temperature. The shading of the celadon depended also on a slight quantity of iron in the glaze. Corean industrial art has become known throughout the world by now, owing its fame to Koryo - cela dons .
