Maebyeong refers to Korean vessels with a small slightly curled mouth rim, short neck, round shoulder, and constricted waist. The name is derived from the Chinese "meiping", or "prunus vase", a misnomer dubbed by Chinese scholars. Some of these vessels have a cup-shaped cover over the mouth, so that they seemed to be used to store high quality wine such as insamju or maehwajuIt would have originally had a lid and there are many maebyong with ginseng leaves on the surfaces.