One of the world's best collections of Korean art is housed in the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, in Seoul. In addition to sculptures, paintings and metalwares, it also holds a substantial number of ceramics from the Koryŏ (918–1392) and Chosŏn (1392–1910) kingdoms. Though several of its masterpieces have featured in exhibitions in Korea as well as in Japan, Europe and the U.S., until recently no exhibition comprising only Leeum artifacts have been held outside Korea. In April 2011, however, the museum lent sixty of its best examples of buncheong (punch'ŏng in standard academic transliteration) stonewares to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for display in the Korean gallery. In the latter half of 2011 they were shown at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Accompanying the exhibition is this illustrated catalogue published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Authored by Soyoung Lee and Seung-chang Jeon,...
