# Buncheong (粉青沙器) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.510 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/buncheong
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Buncheong, a style from Ceramic Styles, 14th–16th century.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: when tableware or bottles of one shape should each carry a different surface, or when stamped repetition and loose handwork have to share one pot in only white and grey. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- White slip lies over a bluish grey body, and the unevenness of the coating is the pattern
- On brushed pieces the bristle tracks run in one direction as a white band
- On stamped pieces small chrysanthemums are pressed edge to edge and filled with white slip, leaving rows of white dots
- On dipped pieces one hard line marks how deep the pot went into the slip, with grey body showing below it

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Decorate only the faces that are seen and leave the base and footring bare. Build in three bands: one line at the rim, the main motif on the body, and white left alone
- Type and lettering: Lettering is not the subject. Put a mark or a date in as a thin incised line filled with white slip, at the same weight as the drawn lines
- Material and surface: Throw a bluish grey clay body, then brush the white slip on or dip the whole pot. Carve, stamp and scrape the slip away to move the white around, then glaze clear and fire. Stop short of a full white so the grey body still shows through
- Colour: #EDE6D6 carries the ground, #6F7B72 is the colour the style is remembered by, #4B3B2A holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: calm, intimacy, play

## What goes wrong

Even out the brush marks and the record of speed disappears, leaving a merely white pot.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/buncheong/design.md