Maebyeong

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

Maebyeong (Mae-byeong, Korean:매병) 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] Unlike the Chinese meiping, the Korean maebyeong vase usually flares outward at the base. 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]

  1. ^ PRWeb[dead link‍]
  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. London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 0-7141-1487-1. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2008-05-14. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  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.