이화여자대학교박물관

The Ewha Womans University Museum is well known for its wide collection of and extensive research on pottery. In 1986, the Museum excavated a government kiln in Gwangju-gun Usan-ri, and a private kiln in Seungju-gun Hugok-ri, both of which produced white porcelain during the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). This exhibition showed not only the results from many excavations done from 1986-1992, but also white porcelain excavated from private kiln that were collected by the Ho-am Art Museum, Gwangju National Museum, and the Mokpo University Museum. Porcelain excavated from government kilns, such as the 5th and 9th kiln at Gwangju-gun, Buncheon-ri, the 2nd and 3rd kilns at Seondong-ri, and the 9th kiln at Usan-ri were compared with the white porcelain produced in local kilns, such as Seungju-gun, Hugok-ri, Gwangju-gun, Chunghyo-dong, Gunpo-gun, Sanbeon-dong, and Jangseong-gun, Daedo-ri. The Museum also exhibited layouts of kilns and implements used in firing the white porcelain so that the public could study the internal structures of kilns and understand the processes of making white porcelain. This exhibition also displayed the report on the excavation of the 9th kiln at Gwangju-gun, Usan-ri done in 1992.