Monkey And Moon Painting, Korea, 1880
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Pre 1900 item# 175515 (stock# 53-34)
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A monkey sitting on a tree branch gazes soulfully at a full moon in this painting from late Yi Dynasty Korea that evokes an old folk tale. Paintings of particular animals related to beliefs rooted in Shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism were popular with all classes in Korea during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although sometimes put into the category of folk art, they more often than not were done by professional artists. In Korea, paintings that had content classifying them as "pop ...click for details
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Choson Palace Painting (One of Pair)
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Pre 1900 item# 171939 (stock# 53-27)
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Signed and sealed by Korean painter Tea Yok, this finely detailed work is one of a pair of paintings that depict scenes in a palace courtyard during Korea's Choson (Yi Dynasty) Period (1392-1910). Dated to circa 1870, this painting and its companion piece have delicate calligraphy that relates to a theme of filial honor. Tucked into the painting next to the palace scenes, the calligraphy is in the Chinese characters that educated Koreans continued to use many years after simplified Hangul be ...click for details
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Choson Palace Painting (One of Pair)
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Pre 1900 item# 171926 (stock# 53-28)
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Signed and sealed by Korean painter Tea Yok, this finely detailed work is one of a pair of paintings that depict scenes in a palace courtyard during Korea's Choson (Yi Dynasty) Period. Dated to circa 1870, this painting and its companion piece have delicate calligraphy that relates to a theme of filial honor. Tucked into the paintings next to the courtyard scenes, the calligraphy is in the Chinese characters that educated Koreans continued to use many years after simplified Hangul became Kor ...click for details
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19th Century Flower Painting, Korea
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Pre 1900 item# 147110 (stock# 53-40)
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Signed and sealed by Chong Mon, a Korean artist whose work dates from mid to late 19th century, this painting is graceful and simple, a fine example of Korean technique using ink and color on paper in the classic Asian style. The subjects are tiger lilies, a rock and two butterflies. The artist added a poem in calligraphy that is very much in tune with the subject matter. The painting retains strong color and is good condition overall, with a few small stains indicating that originally it may ha ...click for details
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Yi Dynasty Korean Ideograph
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Pre 1900 item# 145836 (stock# 53-57)
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This mid-19th century pictorial ideograph painting, called a "munjado," has an interesting cultural tie to Korea and its strong Confucian ideals. Ink and slight color on paper, it is unsigned as is typical for munjado. The ideograph is a graphic, stylized interpretation of the Chinese character "shin" meaning "trust," which is one of the eight major Confucian principles of morality. Throughout the Yi Dynasty inscriptions on paintings were in Chinese characters rathe ...click for details
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Korean Temple Painting
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Pre 1900 item# 140810 (stock# 53-60)
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Seven Buddhas, each representing a star in the Big Dipper, appear in this very large painting from a Korean Buddhist temple wall, along with a another central Buddha, a god of the sun, god of the moon and eleven Shamanist and Taoist gods. Both the painting itself and the major Buddha figure are called "Chilsong," the Korean name for the Big Dipper. Reverence for celestial bodies was rooted in Taoism and Shamanism, then incorporated into Korean Buddhism. The Big Dipper was regarded as e ...click for details
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San-shin, Korean Mountain Spirit
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Pre 1900 item# 140300 (stock# 53-61)
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San-shin, the mountain god, is the subject of this very large 19th century stone color on canvas painting that once hung in a Korean Buddhist temple. A special area was set aside in most temples to honor the mountain spirit, which was gradually absorbed into Korean Buddhism from shamanistic belief beginning around the 15th century in the early Chosen Period. Temple paintings of San-shin always show an old man and a tiger. The mountain spirit is not exclusively the old man or the tiger, but is re ...click for details
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