Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Books and Scholar's Possessions

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Books and Scholar's Possessions
Korea, Chos�n dynasty, last quarter of the 19th century
Eight-panel folding screen
Ink and color on silk; 63 3/4 x 134 1/2 in. (161.9 x 341.6 cm)
Anonymous Loan

Books and Scholar's Possessions

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Books and Scholar's Possessions
Korea, Chos�n dynasty, late 19th century
Ten-panel folding screen
Ink and color on linen; 68 x 170 in. (172.7 x 431.8 cm)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Books and Scholar's Possessions (detail)

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Books and Scholar's Possessions (detail)
Korea, early 20th century
Ten-panel folding screen
Ink and color on silk; 69 x 180 in. (175.3 x 457.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Shelby White Gift, 2005 (2005.385)

Space of Yin-Yang

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Shin Young-ok (Korean, b. 1949)
Space of Yin-Yang, 2002
Six-panel collage
Handmade mulberry paper mounted on board, antique printer trays, taemosi; 100 x 154 x 1in. (254 x 391.2 x 2.5 cm)
Lent by the artist

Panel with Vessels from "Hundred Antiques" Theme

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Panel with Vessels from "Hundred Antiques" Theme
China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736–95)
Cloisonné enamel, jade, wood; 23 1/4 x 27 1/2 in. (59.1 x 69.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929 (29.110.93)

Vase with "Hundred Antiques" Decoration

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Vase with "Hundred Antiques" Decoration
China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662–1722)
Porcelain painted in overglaze famille verte enamels; H. 29 in. (73.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 (14.40.334)

Pair of Covered Jars

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Pair of Covered Jars
China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736–95)
Painted enamel on copper; H. 10 in. (25.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Bejamin Altman, 1913 (14.40.161, .162a,b)

Three-Legged Vessel (Ding) of Archaistic Design

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Three-Legged Vessel (Ding) of Archaistic Design
China, Qing dynasty, late 17th–early 18th century
Bronze; H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1909 (09.118.11)

Beaker of Archaistic Design

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Beaker of Archaistic Design
China, Qing dynasty, 18th–19th century
Bronze; H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914 (14.58.175)

Peacock Feather (on a Man's Summer Court Hat

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Peacock Feather (on a Man's Summer Court Hat
China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Feather, basketry, silk, glass; L. of feather 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Miss Alice Boney, 1962 (62.30.3a, b)

Watch

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Watch
China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong mark and period (1736–95); based on Continental European models of ca. 1700–1725
Gilded brass, black leather with studs; Diam. 2 in. (5.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.1447)

Brush Holder

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Brush Holder
Korea, Chos�n dynasty, first half of the 19th century
Porcelain with openwork design; H. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Hewitt Fund, 1911 (11.142.1)