{"id":10930,"date":"2016-11-27T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2016-11-27T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:20:30","slug":"kintsugi-at-the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=10930","title":{"rendered":"Kintsugi at the MET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended\u00a0my first advanced\u00a0Kintsugi class given by Gen\u00a0Saratani, master\u00a0Japanese lacquer restorer and artist. Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics using lacquer and gold. In the spring I took a beginner class with him and repaired a chipped plate, which I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=10903\">posted<\/a> earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping\u00a0that I would find examples for inspiration at\u00a0the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, I did indeed stumble upon\u00a0these\u00a0early pieces. They are all Korean\u00a0pottery: stoneware, porcelain &amp; Buncheong ware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oil bottle decorated with peony leaves\u00a0<\/strong>Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), late 12th century. Stoneware with reverse-inlaid design under celadon glaze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11663\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11663\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11663\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6958-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_6958\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6958-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6958-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6958-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maebyeong decorated with cranes and clouds<\/strong> Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), late 13th century. Stoneware with inlaid design under celadon glaze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11665\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11665\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11665\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6964.jpg\" alt=\"img_6964\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6964.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6964-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6964-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Small bowl decorated with chrysanthemum<\/strong> Goryeo dynasty\u00a0(918-1392), 12th century. Porcelain with incised design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11659\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11659\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6974-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_6974\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6974-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6974-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6974-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dish with inscription and decorated with chrysanthemums and\u00a0rows of dots<\/strong> Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), mid-15th century. Buncheong ware with stamped design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11661\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6978-3.jpg\" alt=\"img_6978\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6978-3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6978-3-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6978-3-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended\u00a0my first advanced\u00a0Kintsugi class given by Gen\u00a0Saratani, master\u00a0Japanese lacquer restorer and artist. Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics using lacquer and gold. In the spring I took a beginner class with him and repaired a chipped plate, which I posted earlier. Hoping\u00a0that I would find examples for inspiration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11669,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions\/11669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}