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| ▲ This photo, provided by Gwangju National Museum, shows excavated relic from Hyeongok-ri, Dangyang-gun, North Chungcheong Province. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲ This photo, provided by Gwangju National Museum, shows special exhibition "Goryeo Celadon adn the Art of Tea and Wine." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Yonhap) -- The National Museum of Gwangju which mainly focuses on Asian pottery culture will hold a special exhibition featuring beautiful Goryeo Celadon.
The museum will hold “Goryeo Celadon and the Art of Tea and Wine” to present dagu (tea-sets) and jugi (tool sets used to drink liquors) from the country’s national museums and related organizations’ pottery collections. The exhibition will take place from Dec. 13 to March. 20, 2022.
About 200 pieces of Goryeo celadons and about 250 artworks including those of China’s will be on display. Visitors can see various shapes of kettles and cups made during the Goryeo Dynasty.
“We designed the exhibition intending to study how the Goryeo Celadon was used during its era. As teas and drinks became an important culture during the era, related fancy celadon and tools were produced,” said an art and science researcher of the museum.
The exhibition categorizes dagu and jugi based on Chinese paintings and will begin with a space explaining how the tools were used.
Also, it will look into the history of how the dagu and jugi changed. It will discuss the Goryeo people’s taste of arts through the National Museum of Korea’s Celadon Ewer with Inlaid Scrolls Design and Inscription of Poem.
In the last space, the exhibition will show tools related to teas and drinks buried in tombs as burial accessories. It will study the Goryeo Dynasty’s culture through celadons excavated from Kaeseong, the kingdom’s capital, and from tombs around the country.
“Through the exhibition, visitors will be able to find out that the beautifully shaped and colored Goryeo celadons are practical as well. We hope that it will be a meaningful opportunity to show the Goryeo celadons’ new aspect,” said a researcher from the museum.
It may be great to enjoy the exhibition with another special exhibition featuring kettles used to drink liquors or teas from the Goryeo Dynasty on display. The exhibition will be open until the end of December at Horim Museum Sinsa Branch, Seoul.
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