도자에 있어서 실용성과 적합성의 관점 - 조선시대 도자제기를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Embodying beauty through crafts is not simply restricted to expressing aesthetic features, but technological beauty is also characterized by putting in place practicality based on the purpose of things and their functional importance. Yanagi Muneyoshi finds the beauty of crafts out of usefulness and stresses the importance of their purposes and uses. Such a concept of usefulness and adaptability stemming from the purposes and functions of an object can also be found in the existence and background of ceramic ritual vessel in the Joseon Dynasty. This study is intended to throw light on the purposeful suitability and vessel usefulness coming from the social and cultural context of Joseon period. To this end, based on the positive data and historical literature made so far in the area of porcelain, flow of change in social and cultural styles was grasped to develop discussion on the purpose and suitability of ritual utensils. As a result, Joseon organized and manufactured ceremonial vessels in order to carry the proprieties into effect as a Confucian state and exhibit the authority and cause as the Royal household, using ritual utensils as a vital ceremonial vessel for observing the Five National Proprieties (Oh-rye). Porcelain ritual utensils were also required to manufacture and use as a solution for the lack of metal materials, which lasted from the end of Goryeo. Also to be noted is that ceramic ritual vessel is basically a bowl for practicing Confucian sense of propriety as well as embodying the symbolic meanings contained in the ritual vessel,implying the usefulness and adaptability to be unfolded as a vessel suited for the roles and functions of connecting the society and man, and carrying decorum between man and man.