by Philip Gowman
12 September 2007
The story goes that Bernard Leach, browsing in a Seoul antiques store in the mid 1930s, came across a Choson dynasty Moon Jar and held his head in disbelief at its beauty. And, after one of the more inspired impulse buys in recent art history, he walked out of the shop “carrying a piece of […]
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by Philip Gowman
25 January 2007
Some of the highlights and not-so-highlights of my visit to Seoul. First the good. Soundday in Hongdae Seoul’s National Museum of Contemporary Arts The Leeum Gallery (post to come soon once I’ve done a bit of research. Now done. Post is here) Insadong. Yes, there’s some touristy tat for sale, but there’s also some really […]
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Moon jars old and new
by Philip Gowman on 25 September, 2007
in Ceramics | Event reports and reviews | Exhibition reviews and comment | Permanent displays
There were moon jars a-plenty at the British Museum on Saturday: old and new, whole and smashed, real and fake and, as is the nature of these objects, none of them perfectly spherical. In pride of place in Room 3, just as you enter the museum, is one of the prized items in the British […]
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