Maebyeong

Maebyong
Korean name
Hangul	매병
Hanja	梅甁
Revised Romanization	Maebyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Maebyŏng

Maebyeong refers to Korean vessels with a small slightly curled mouth rim, short neck, round shoulder, and constricted waist.^[1] The maebyong is derived from the Chinese meiping (literally "plum vase").^[2][3] They were first used to hold wine and later branches of plum blossoms.^[4][5]

Some of these vessels have a cup-shaped cover over the mouth, so that they seemed to be used to store high quality wine such as insamju (인삼주, ginseng wine) or maehwaju (매화주; rice wine made with plum)^[6] It would have originally had a lid and there are many maebyong with ginseng leaves on the surfaces.^[7]

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See also

• Korean pottery and porcelain
• Buncheong
• Joseon white porcelain

References

1. ^ http://mediaserver.prweb.com/pdfdownload/778834/pr.pdf
2. ^ Smith, Judith G. (1998). Arts of Korea. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 415. ISBN 9780870998508. http://books.google.com/books?ei=DsFRTracIsPtOYmEtd0K&ct=result&id=pgTqAAAAMAAJ&dq=maebyong+meiping&q=maebyong+meiping#search_anchor. 
3. ^ Jane Portal (2000). Punchong ware maebyong vase. London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 0714114871. http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/p/punchong_ware_maebyong_vase.aspx. Retrieved 2008-05-14. 
4. ^ "Meiping". Musée Guimet. http://www.guimet.fr/spip.php?page=mot&id_mot=283&id_article=9. Retrieved 18 August 2011. 
5. ^ "Fire Gilded Silver #Item3755". TK Asian Antiquities. http://www.tkasian.com/pages/metals/silver/3755/3755intro.html. Retrieved 22 August 2011. 
6. ^ "Maebyong [Korea] (27.119.11)". In Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/07/eak/ho_27.119.11.htm (October 2006)
7. ^ "매병 (梅甁)" (in Korean). EncyKorea. http://100.empas.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=292090&v=45. Retrieved 2008-05-14. 

• "Maebyong vase, celadon glaze". Paris: Musée Guimet. http://www.guimet.fr/Maebyong-vase-celadon-glaze?var_recherche=maebyong. Retrieved 2008-05-14. 
• Youngsook Pak; Roderick Whitfield (2003). Handbook of Korean art: Earthenware and Celadon. Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 1856693600. http://books.google.com/books?id=vqqob_n_PtwC. Retrieved 2008-05-14.