II · 기법 The making · 분쳍 상감 07 / 14
분청 분장 — The four marks of the brush

Why the surface stays unfinished

1

The slip is dragged, never poured

A coarse 귀않 (gwiyal) brush leaves its own streaks; we keep the white where the bristles fell, not where a designer wished it.

2

Incisions cut through to the body

Sgraffito lines scrape the chalky slip away to the gray-green clay beneath — the drawing is a wound, not a print.

3

Green-gray, never bleached white

The glaze stays celadon-adjacent and matte; a porcelain sheen would lie about a stoneware kiln in early Joseon.

4

The hand is allowed to wander

Folk potters drew fish and lotus in a few loose strokes — spontaneity over symmetry, every piece off-center on purpose.

This is the Buncheong Gray Slip Ware design system, applied by Curio Design — a design-style library for AI agents. Full Buncheong Gray Slip Ware guide → designbycurio.com/learn/korean-buncheong-gray-slip