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Korean Celadon pottery is highly famous for its jade glaze

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Achieving the perfect shade of green was a matter of intense national pride. Historic Korean Celadon pottery is internationally renowned for its incredibly specific, translucent jade-green glaze, a color so notoriously difficult to fire in a kiln that the exact ancient technique remains a source of massive frustration for modern ceramicists.

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