This exhibition on royal ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty displays together for the first time ceramics unearthed from royal tombs and other royal sites of the Goryeo Dynasty, which controlled most of the Korean peninsula during 918-1392 A.D.

 

The exhibition will focus on the wide-ranging cultural assets excavated along with the epitaph of King Injong. They are valuable resources of socio-cultural research on the first half of the 12^th century. The epitaph of King Injong is a record comprising 41 jade sticks on which praises for the achievements of the king are written, and it is especially meaningful as its years of production is known: 1146, the 24^th year of the king’s reign.

 

A range of ceramics and other cultural assets unearthed from palaces and other royal sites, as well as from kilns that produced ceramics for the royal court, evince the essence of Goryeo culture as they were made by the best ceramists. The Goryeo royal family preferred splendid ceramics but with dignity, decorum, and a beauty of temperance.

 

- The Royal Ceramics of Goryeo Dynasty
- Goryeo Royal Ceremics and Their Styles
- Goryeo Royal Kilns in Gangjin and Buan