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 | | The earliest pottery of which there is record belongs to the Silla dynasty [57 B.C.-A.D. The body is grey and of variable hardness, unglazed, and decorated with incised patterns, or impressed with the mesh of coarse textiles [the so-called 'mat markings']. |
 | | During the Yi dynasty [1392-1910] the mishima decoration was continued in the early years, and from the sixteenth century a type of porcelain, often opaque, with a greyish glaze, was clumsily wrought, but superbly decorated with swift, sure brushwork with birds, floral and foliate, and abstract motifs, painted in flish-blue, or sometimes copper red. |
 | | Korean forms generally differ considerably from those of China; spouted vessels based on the gourd, and cups and stands, are examples. |
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