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`The Ministry of Communications issues a framed stamp, required for automatizing postal service. This 60-won definitive stamp, which is to be the main kind of stamps, has as its design National Treasure No. 107, a white porcelain jar, and has its edges framed so as to be automatically canceled. A 17th century product decorated in underglaze iron with grapes hanging on vines, this jar is 53.3㎝ in height and 19.5㎝ and 19.2㎝ in diameter at its mouth and bottom respectively. It is at present in the possession of Ewha Women`s University Museum. With its grapes and vines painted in well-balanced proportion on its surface, whose color, in turn, gives excellent harmony produced from a peculiar combination of milk-white and light-blue glazes, the jar is generally considered to be the best of the Yi Dynasty iron-painted porcelain wares. Although its origin goes back to the Koryo Dynasty, the Yi Dynasty porcelain was refined throughout the 500-year period of the dynasty with the creative addition of its own beauty. In contrast to the aristocratic nature displayed in the former, simplicity, natural features of Korea, and people`s emotions in their daily life are reflected in the later.`