| Title |
Korean Ceramics: Goryeo (Koryo) Dynasty, Maebyong [022] |
| Collection Name and Number |
P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection |
| Photo Number |
Box 40, Korea, Ceramics, Periods, Koryo Dyn., Mubyong style, 27 |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1976 |
| Subject |
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum--Photographs; Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs; Ceramics, Korean--Photographs; Pottery, Korean--Photographs; Flowers--Art--Photographs; Korea; Art |
| Keywords |
Goryeo Dynasty; Displays |
| Spatial Coverage |
San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Description |
Photograph of a Korean vase (maebyong), 13th century, Koryo Dynasty, painted celadon (with designs of floral scrolls painted under the glaze in iron-brown; the glaze has oxidized, resulting in brown tonality), H: 11 1/4 in., M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California |
| Caption on Slide |
Maebyong porc. jar, Koryo Dyn., De Young Mus. S.F. |
| Additional Information |
Image was scanned from (faded) color slide. Caption is from photographer's notes on slide. Note: Appears to be same object (74) as in color photograph found on p. 42 of The Art of the Korean Potter by Robert P. Griffing, Jr., An Asia House Gallery Publication. Koryŏ Dynasty: A.D. 918-1392 Note: Bottles like this are known as maebyong, which comes from the Chinese mei-ping ('vase for plum blossoms').--British Museum. Note: Meiping is a type of Chinese pottery vase inspired by the shape of the human body. It was meant to hold a single branch of plum tree blossoms.--Encyclopædia Britannica. Note: Appears to be the same vase in images with File Names: ceramics_mabyong_026 and sl_koreancourseA192 (most recently scanned into collection). |
| Type |
Image |
| Creator |
Tierney, Lennox |
| Rights Management |
This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
| Textual Date |
1947-2004 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6bv7zvp |
| Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000. |
| Donor |
Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney |
| Setname |
uum_lctpc |
| ID |
333759 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bv7zvp |
