Carving Out Earth and Filling It Back In: The Story of Sanggam Celadon, Invented by Goryeo Potters
The sixty-nine cranes carved on the Kansong Art Museum’s National Treasure ‘Celadon Maebyeong with Inlaid Cloud and Crane Design’ are not painted with a brush but patterns made by carving out clay and filling it back with other clay. We trace the tenacity of Goryeo potters who began with imitation and perfected the distinctive beauty of bisaek and sanggam—through the kilns of Gangjin and Buan and on into buncheong ware after the decline.
