Maebyeong

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]

Maebyong
Maebyeong celadon vase with sanggam engraved cranes (National Treasure No. 68)
Korean name
Hangul
매병
Hanja
Revised RomanizationMaebyeong
McCune–ReischauerMaebyŏng

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]

See also

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 978-0-87099-850-8.
  3. Jane Portal (2000). Punchong ware maebyong vase. Korea - art and archaeology. London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 0-7141-1487-1. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  4. "Meiping" (in French). Musée Guimet. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
  5. "Fire Gilded Silver #Item3755". TK Asian Antiquities. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. 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/works-of-art/27.119.11/ (October 2006)
  7. 매병 (梅甁) (in Korean). EncyKorea. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2008-05-14.

Sources

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