Celadon Double-Walled Openwork Vessel: Plum Blossom Motif, 2021
This vessel is chosen by those who recognise that the deepest beauty often emerges through patience, restraint, and quiet perseverance. “Within its flowering branches, emptiness becomes as eloquent as clay.” Master artisan Young-soo Kim's 2021 Celadon Double-Walled Openwork Vessel (Ho) transforms one of Korea's most enduring cultural symbols into a meditation on resilience. Rather than presenting the plum blossom as an isolated decorative motif, he allows the entire vessel to become a flowering tree, where trunk, branch, blossom and open air exist as one continuous composition. The plum blossom occupies a singular place within Korean visual culture because it blooms before spring has truly arrived. Appearing while snow may still cover the landscape, it has long symbolised steadfastness, moral integrity and renewal. Scholars associated it with quiet dignity; painters celebrated its restrained elegance; ceramic artists found within its delicate blossoms an expression of strength without excess. This vessel continues that lineage with remarkable clarity. Its structure is inseparable from its meaning. The demanding double-walled construction creates two independent ceramic bodies—an in
$43,659.00
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