Fantastic Korean Celadon Inlaid Openwork Vase On Carved Wooden Stand. Solid bottom half with delicate leaf and flower paintings, and the top half intricately patterned with flowers and openings between them. Marked on underside of vase, along with label. Wooden stand unmarked. 

Size: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 16 in. 

Celadon is a term for pottery denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware, and a type of transparent glaze, often with small cracks, that was first used on greenware, but later used on other porcelains. Celadon originated in China as early as the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC - 1046 BC), though the term is purely European. Celadon production later spread to Japan, Korea, and Thailand, and the style was eventually supplanted as the dominant ware of the Imperial court by blue and white painted porcelain during the Yuan Dynasty (1271 AD - 1368 AD). Eventually, European potteries produced some pieces, but it was never a major element there. Finer pieces are in porcelain, but both the color and the glaze can be produced in stoneware and earthenware. Most of the earlier Longquan celadon is on the border of stoneware and porcelain, meeting the Chinese but not the European definitions of porcelain.

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