The Koryo Dynasty The Koryo Dynasty, also known as the Goryeo Dynasty, occurred between 935-1392. They were very well known for making ceramic objects and building magnificent buildings. The women made and displayed beautiful pieces of jewelry. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History The term celadon is thought to derive from the name of the hero in a seventeenth-century French pastoral comedy. The color of the character Céladon's robe evoked, in the minds of Europeans, the distinctive green-glazed ceramics from China, where celadon originated. Some scholars object to such an arbitrary and romanticized Western nomenclature.