While highly skilled potters at the official kilns produced elegant shapes out of refined porcelain clay, local potters had to manage with inferior materials. The squat proportions and surface imperfections of this jar suggest its rural origins. Nevertheless, the rendering of a bird on a branch of blossoming plum was skillfully executed.

Korean ceramics function as ceremonial, funerary, and evryday household objects.  Many of the oldest examples have been preserved because they were buried in tombs and protected from the elements.

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