Metroplitan_Museum_Of_Art_Collection_Review

Metroplitan Museum Of Art Collection Review During all of my years of art study I was always most interested in pottery. I spent years throwing pottery on the wheel. I experimented extensively with different types of clay, glazes and firing techniques. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections, I chose to look at various pieces of pottery. From the Asian Art Collection I chose highlight #17 of 50. It is a large jar made of porcelain, which is a special very soft pure clay, first developed in China. It requires an extremely high firing temperature. It was made during the Choson dynasty (1392 - 1910), 18th - 19th Century Korea. These porcelain wares were associated with Neo-Confucianism, the Choson state’s official ideology, displacing Buddhism which had been promoted by the court rulers of the preceding Koryo dynasty (918 - 1392). Jars of this type were admired for their irregular shape, as a result of slight sagging during the firing process. The second piece that I chose was from the Ancient Near Eastern Art Collection. art, chose, collection, century, pottery, highlight, found, first, firing, 50, years, techniques, porcelain, pieces, piece, one, made, large, jars, jar, iraq, glazed, dynasty, during, clay, choson, bowl, 19th, 1392, ziwiye, word, wheel, wares, very, various, types