Korean Celadon Tea Set

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Known locally as cheong-ja, Korean celadon is famous for being beautiful and of high quality. Korean pottery has a long history, dating back thousands of years. Korean pottery differs from Chinese in a sense that it is more about simplicity in design, rather than overt fanciness. Korean celadon artisans liked to contrast colors by using an overlaying glaze that was different from the clay body. Inlaying designs, called sang-gam in Korean, was a technique where differently colored clay would be used to produce a single celadon, which would sport multiple colors. Celadon refers to the jade-green glaze commonly seen in Korean pottery. Korean celadon is sometimes called “Goryeo celadon” because it was developed and refined during the Goryeo period in the 10th and 11th centuries.