Specialties
|
Korean Yonhwado Lotus Painting by Hang San
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Paintings:
Pre 1920 item# 877269 (stock# 22-23)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
$1200
|
A silk yonhwado painting by Korean painter Hang San is a serene and soft scene of three waterfowl nestled among large lotus leaves. Traditional Korean lotus paintings, called yonhwado, were displayed in Korean homes during summer months on the open wood verandah or on the walls of the gentlemen's quarters. This early 20th century painting owes its calm to the placement and muted tones of the green leaves and a few rings of blue water on the fine silk. The scene includes three birds rather th ...click for details
|
|
Korean Folk Painting, Framed
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Paintings:
Pre 1900 item# 532539 (stock# 53-47)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
SOLD
|
A high ranking official rides a mythical chilin rendered as a wonderfully lumpy animal in this mid 19th century Chosen (Yi) Dynasty painting. The official carries incense and is followed by a servant carrying a staff. They travel on a cloud and have clouds in front of them. The work is unsigned, characteristic of Korean folk art, which was commissioned to represent a family's specific hopes for the future. The chilin was a badge of high rank as was the style of black hat worn by the official ...click for details
|
|
Korean Ideograph (Munjado) Painting
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Paintings:
Pre 1900 item# 275794 (stock# 53-58)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
SOLD
|
This mid 19th century Korean munjado folk painting represents the Confucian value of honor and justice. Ink and slight color on paper, it is matted with silk and framed with a traditional Korean rounded frame. The ideograph, called munjado, is a stylized graphic rendering of a Chinese character. Chinese characters, rather than Korean Hangul characters, were used in Korean arts for many years after the country's official language became Hangul. This particular character may have been used to ...click for details
|
|
Korean Landscape on Silk, Framed
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Paintings:
Pre 1920 item# 266694 (stock# 53-46)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
SOLD
|
Signed and sealed by Korean painter Chun Jun, this early 20th century traditional landscape has softness and charm. It shows a woman dressed in red waiting on the veranda of her house on the mountain. The master, on horseback, is seen lower in the painting with a servant as they approach a bridge leading toward the mountain. In traditional Asian landscape form, the figures are depicted as secondary and insignificant against the magnificent trees and towering cliffs of the mountain. The silk on w ...click for details
|
|
Manchurian Cranes Painting, Korea, 1840
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Paintings:
Pre 1900 item# 173551 (stock# 53-41)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
SOLD
|
The Manchurian cranes and ancient pine tree in this 150-year-old Korean painting have been used throughout Asia for centuries as symbols to convey wishes for long life and happy marriage. The two red-headed cranes were adopted as emblems of both longevity and fidelity because cranes mate for life and were believed to live well beyond 600 years of age. The pine tree was used as a symbol of long life since it is forever green. Red trumpet flowers and touches of blue on the old tree trunk and in t ...click for details
|
|
Munjado Screen, Yi Dynasty, Korea
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Paintings:
Pre 1910 item# 168041 (stock# 22-17)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
SOLD
|
From late 18th/early 19th century Korea, the striking characters on this four-panel folding screen represent four principles of Confucian morality. The paintings are called "munjado" and were used in Yi Dynasty households to teach Confucian virtues to children as well as to serve as daily reminders to adults about values they should uphold. Confucian ideals were then and still are exceptionally important in Korean society. The four Confucian principles represented on this screen are, l ...click for details
|
|
Three Fishermen Brush Painting
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Folk Art:
Pre 1920 item# 159080 (stock# 53-50)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
SOLD
|
Signed and sealed by Korean painter Lo Cok, this large early 20th century brush painting of three fishermen returning home with the day's catch is done in bold strokes of grey and black ink on paper. The only touch of color is the skin tone of the fishermen. The unusual scene--the man in the rear holding a bamboo pole points to the kneeling man who is being stepped over by the man in the foreground--may relate to a folk legend. Painted in a Japanese rather than Korean style, this work dates ...click for details
|
|
Yi Dynasty Scholars Painting
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Korean:
Paintings:
Pre 1900 item# 147960 (stock# 53-44)
|
click for details
|
Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
$800, Framed
|
Two scholars and a sleeping servant boy are painted on loose-weave silk in this mid 19th century Korean work. In strong light, the large unpainted silk area above the subjects takes on a rich gold sheen. A scholar's rock in an unusual shape rests on a container of pebbles in the foreground. The position of the scholars to one side contemplating objects not shown in the painting, plus the absence of an artist's seal suggests this was part of a larger piece, but the silk mat appears to be ...click for details
|
|
|
|
|
