Scholarly Accoutrements

Unidentified artist

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Munbangdo (scholar’s study paintings) emerged as a still-life painting genre in eighteenth-century Joseon Korea. Munbangdo paintings are often folding screens, but a single image is a more affordable and accessible format. Munbangdo are divided into three compositional types: bookcases, isolated ojects, and stacked assemblages. In keeping with single image munbangdo, this painting is the stacked type. The large number of existing single image munbangdo attest to the genre’s popularity and the prevalence of the stacked type in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Scholarly Accoutrements, Unidentified artist, Framed painting; ink and color on paper, Korea

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