. The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Corean collections in the National Museum . EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. Korean Serving Woman in the Palace. In summer costume. The hair is dressed in the fashion peculiar to courtladies. The coat is always white and the skirt blue. Only the royalfamily wear red garments in the palace. (From a photograph by P. L. Jouy in the U. S. National Museum.) Report of National Museum, 1891,—Hough. Plate Korean Serving Woman in the Palace. KOREAN COLLECTIONS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 435 Finer specimens of Korean pottery are to be found in Japanese muse-ums and in various
. The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Corean collections in the National Museum . EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. Korean Serving Woman in the Palace. In summer costume. The hair is dressed in the fashion peculiar to courtladies. The coat is always white and the skirt blue. Only the royalfamily wear red garments in the palace. (From a photograph by P. L. Jouy in the U. S. National Museum.) Report of National Museum, 1891,—Hough. Plate Korean Serving Woman in the Palace. KOREAN COLLECTIONS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 435 Finer specimens of Korean pottery are to be found in Japanese muse-ums and in various collections. Japanese wares seem to owe theirexcellence to Korean potters.* The glazed wares of the Song-do potteries, to be described, are seem-ingl}^ protoporcelain, judging from the paste, which is evidently kao-linic. This variety of heavy celadon, or olive-colored ware, has beendug up from graves in Kiung-ju or Kiou-chiu, the capital city of theancient Ejngdom of Silla, which existed through one thousand yearsprevious to 1000 A. D. Korean pe-chun (sky color) ware was much esteemed by the Chinese,and there is a Chinese poem dating from the latter part of the Sung, orbeginning of the Ming dynasty, setting forth the impossibility of imi-tating the pe-chun of Korean pottery. The poem begins, ^ Kaoli pe-chtm-ja,^ Korean sky-color porcelain; ja being the Chinese yao or porce-lain. (Soh.) The mortuary pottery collection o
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