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Title
Bowl with Lotus Petal Decoration
Description
Stoneware with celadon glaze, carved petal decoration on exterior. Some grit adheres to unglazed footring and base, fired orange-red.
Title
Bowl with Peony Decoration
Description
Gray stoneware bowl with celadon glaze, incised ring. The interior of the bowl is decorated with low-relief underglaze molded decoration of peonies. Fine grit adhering to unglazed footring and base, fired orange-red.
Title
Buddhist Arhat (K: Nahan)
Description
Stoneware figure of a Buddhist arhat (K: nahan, C: luohan) with celadon glaze, and underglaze incised decoration, and with inlays (sanggam) of white and iron-oxide brown slip-painted decoration. The figure has been hand-modelled, and features a large head, and large hands, clasped before the figure. His feet protrude below. Underglaze incisions around the mouth suggest a beard, and underglaze incisions on the surface of the nahan's robes suggest pleats and folds.
Title
Calligraphy Album: Later Preface on the Orchid Pavilion Gathering (Nanjongjip huso)
Description
Album of twenty-two leaves of calligraphy entitled the Later Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering (蘭亭集後序, Nanjongjip huso).
Title
Carp and Crab
Description
Hanging scroll painting of brushed black ink on silk of a carp and crab underwater.
Title
Cliff with Orchid and Bamboo
Description
Hanging scroll painting of brushed black ink on paper showing orchids and bamboo growing from a vertical cliff-face.
Title
Covered Cinerary Urn
Description
Unglazed stoneware covered with kiln gloss (natural ash glaze deposits) and with incised and impressed designs on the body and lid
Title
Cup and Saucer
Description
Cup and saucer of beaten silver with enameled decoration. The cup is decorated with a Korean three-color Taegeuk (太極) on two sides, and with the words in English 'Seoul, Korea, 1904' on the other. The saucer is decorated with four stylised Chinese characters. Crudely scratched into the base of both cup and saucer are the characters 大韓帝國, 羅峻英制造, 京城廣泉 which reads 'Greater Korean Empire [1897-1910), made by Najun Yeoung, Seoul [Gyeongseong - the name given to Seoul during this era], Gwangchon'.
Title
Flask with Waterfowl and Plant Decoration
Description
Stoneware flask with a celadon glaze and flattened faces featuring a design of birds amid reeds on one side; and stylized stalks of flowers on the other, each depicted with black and white clay slip inlays (sanggam). The edge of the flask is decorated with a patterned band of overlapping curved lines using a white clay slip inlay.
Title
Foliate Wine Cup and Stand with Stylized Chrysanthemum Decoration
Description
Stoneware wine cup and stand, with celadon glaze and underglaze inlaid (K: sanggam) on cup featuring decoration of chrysanthemums in black and white, and gold lacquer (J: kintsugi) repairs.
Title
From Point
Description
Painting of acrylic on canvas, of series of black, rounded squares with brush stroke textures in a grid covering the entire area of the canvas.
Title
Halloween
Description
Black and white photograph of a girl sitting on a step, holding a sandwich, with a Halloween mask resting beside her.
Title
Hand Warmer
Description
Brass hand warmer, more typical of Chinese design, with handle, and pierced lid with floral motif.
Title
In Front of the Theatre, Korea
Description
Black and white albumen photograph showing a large crowd of men, in traditional Joseon dress, in front of a theatre.
Title
Inkstone Box (硯庄, Yeonsang)
Description
Wooden inkstone box (硯庄, Yeonsang), with two compartments, on four short inward facing cabriole style legs. The upper compartment is enclosed by a detachable lid, which can be lifted up by means of a circular finger-hole. The lower compartment contains a removable drawer, possibly made of pine, with a small circular brass handle.
Title
Jar with Auspicious Chinese Characters
Description
White porcelain jar of maebyong (plum vase) shape with underglaze iron-oxide brown decoration of four auspicious Chinese characters around the body, and a cloud-scroll design on the neck. The glaze on the jar features a pronounced crackle.
Title
Jar with Floral Designs
Description
White porcelain jar with loosely brushed underglaze blue floral designs. A pattern of five ruyi (如意) is painted around the top of the shoulder. The jar has round body with a small foot, a short neck, and a wide mouth.
Title
Joseon painting: Travelers among Streams and Mountains 潮鮮畫, 溪山行陸旅圖
Description
Hanging scroll painting of brushed ink on silk suggestive of a Northern Song (960-1127) style mountain landscape with a donkey-riding scholar and attendant. A paper slip inside the painting's box reads: 潮鮮畫, 溪山行陸旅圖 (Joseon painting: Travelers among Streams and Mountains), and is impressed with a seal reading 本願寺藏 meaning from the 'collection of the Hongan-ji Temple (This may refer to the Hongan-ji/Hongwanji Temple or temples, of which there are several, of the Jodo Shinshu School (浄土真宗) of Japanese Buddhism. There is a faint square red seal impression on the upper right portion of the painting surface.
Title
Landscape
Description
Landscape painting of a bridge spanning a river in a mountain landscape.
Title
Landscape and Poem: Modified Excerpt from "Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlit Night" by Du Fu (712–770)
Description
One of three album leaves, probably from the same album as 1995.80 and 1995.81
Title
[Landscape and Poem: "Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District" by Wei Yingwu (737–792), Landscape and Poem: "Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District" by Wei Yingwu (737–792)]
Description
One of three album leaves, probably from the same album as 1995.81 and 1995.82
Title
Landscape and Poem: "Searching for the Hermit of the West Hill: Not Meeting Him" by Qiu Wei (694–789?)
Description
One of three album leaves, probably from the same album as 1995.80 and 1995.82
Title
A New Design for TV Chair
Description
One of 30 prints by 30 artists included in The New York Collection for Stockholm, published by Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.
Title
Ohsuk (Dark Black Stone)
Description
Carved dark gray stone with white spotted surface. Deeply incised around lower middle circumference. Two vertically oriented shallow ovals cut in at top of one side.
Title
Pedestalled Jar
Description
Pedestalled stoneware jar, unglazed but with kiln gloss (natural ash glaze deposits) featuring combed and impressed decoration on the neck and body.
Title
Pedestalled Jar
Description
Unglazed stoneware vessel with a round globular body on a flaring pedestal foot featuring cut out rectangular shapes. The body is dark brown with areas of oxidization, impressed decoration, a light brown surface coloring, and natural ash glaze deposits.
Title
Poem: Modified Excerpt from Response to Mr. Xu Wurui’s “Whistles on the Horse” by Li Yi (748–829)
Description
Hanging scroll calligraphy of brushed ink on paper by Li Baikei/Yi Mae Kye which reads: 強向盃中覓舊春 (Deep in my cups, searching for lost springtimes). The scroll has been remounted in Japan by Maruyama Okyo, around a century after the original calligraphy, with a brushed ink on paper painted mount of plum blossoms. With (original?) inscribed 18th-century wooden box
Title
Portrait of a Scholar Official
Description
Portrait of a seated Joseon era civil official. Behind him is a red lacquer table on which can be seen two archaic Chinese bronze vessels (a ding 鼎 and a gu 觚), and a red lacquer bottle. A sprig of prunus sits in the gu vessel. The official wears a dark blue official robe 官服. He also wears a a belt (角帶, gakdae), an official's black silk hat (紗帽, sa mo), and leather shoes. The tall crown of the hat is in keeping with a mid to early Joseon date, rather than late Joseon when the crown was apparently lower. His robe features a large twin crane rank badge 雙鶴胸背 (Ssanghak Hungbae) indicating that the official is of the third rank or above. The large size of the insignia, covering the whole chest, suggests that this portrait may be of earlier Joseon date (late Joseon insignia tended to be smaller in size). The painting is partially trimmed at edges; artist unidentified; Korean, active late Joseon dynasty (1392-1910).
Title
Portrait of Son (Seon) Monk Jeweoldang Seongan
Description
Portrait painting in ink and colours on silk of a seated monk holding a staff in his left hand, and beads in his right, and seated in three-quarter profile. Originally a hanging scroll. The cartouche in the upper of left of the image contains an inscription reading: 霽月堂大師聖岸真.
Title
Ridge Tile in the Form of a Demonic Face (鬼面瓦/兽面瓦, Gwimyeon)
Description
Unglazed grey stoneware roof ridge tile fragment with mold impressed decoration of an ogre mask, with kiln gloss (natural ash glaze) deposits. Left half of ridge tile, broken vertically.
Title
Rock (竹方修石方貞)
Description
Hanging scroll painting of brushed black ink on paper depicting an angular upthrusting rock. Title at upper right, and a longer inscription detailing the artist's ill health at the age of 80, at lower left.
Title
Rocks and Orchids
Description
Hanging scroll painting of brushed ink on paper, of a diagonal rocky outcrop with a poem inscribed above (in Chinese).
Title
Seated Buddha Amitabha (Amita) (The Buddha of Infinite Light)
Description
Seated bronze Buddha Amitabha (K: Amita) showing traces of partial gilding, and bronze patination. Amitabha is depicted with both hands in his lap in the meditation (S: dhyana) gesture (S: mudra). The centre of Amitabha's chest is incised with the character "卐" (K: man; C: wan) indicating auspiciousness and good fortune.
Title
Small Bottle
Description
Crackled finish and darl brown painted unglazed foot-ring and base. This may be a Korean imitation of Chinese guan ware
Title
Standing Bodhisattva
Description
Standing bodhisattva of carved lacquered wood construction with traces of original gilding; and with partial set of original woodblock-printed consecration sutras remaining in the hollow of the head. The bodhisattva's hand gestures (S: mudra) the left and the right hands are in the same positions in that the thumbs and the middle fingers of each hand are touching. This gesture is a variation of the vitarka mudra (S), which may be translated as the Reasoning or Discussion Mudra, which is usually associated with Buddha Amitabha. This statue may therefore represent the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (S), Guanyin (C), Gwan-eum (K) who's parent buddha is Amithabha.
Title
Translated Vase
Description
Fragments of broken white porcelain vases decorated with underglaze blue rejoined with epoxy, and the epoxy then covered in 24K gold leaf in a technique reminiscent of the traditional Japanese gold lacquer kintsugi technique used to repair borken cermaics. The Translated Vase series consists of sculptures reconstructed from discarded ceramic fragments. Yee Sookyoung recycles the discarded work of Korean masters who reproduce traditional Korean ceramics. Vases with minor defects are destroyed to retain the rarity and value of the unblemished masterpieces. Yee Sookyoung then pieces these destroyed vases back together in the manner of three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles, covering the cracks in gold.
Title
Untitled
Description
White porcelain vessel in a flattened basin-like form and angular faceted surfaces, on a raised foot, with two low ridge like handles protruding from the body of the vessel. Glazed with an overglaze white slip.
Title
Untitled
Description
Painting of loosely brushed and scattered black and colored inks over cream colored handmade paper.
Title
Untitled
Description
Loosely brushed framed painting in black and coloured inks on paper.
Title
Visible Profundity I-0417
Description
Unframed painting of oil on a vertical oblong canvas, with, from top to bottom, bands of yellow, black, dark green, and red.
Title
Water Dropper
Description
Late Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Formerly attributed as: Japanese, Showa period (1926-1989)
Title
Water Dropper in the Shape of Flower Petals and a Butterfly
Description
Porcelain water dropper molded In the shape of a butterfly on flower petals with underglaze blue decoration
Title
Wild Geese and Reeds
Description
Ten-panel folding screen, with one continuous composition of brushed gold pigment on black silk showing a large gaggle of geese amid reeds on the bank of a river or lake, with further groups of geese in flight above. The black silk has a damask pattern of rosettes woven into it.
Title
Wine Bottle with Dragon and Flaming Pearl Decoration
Description
Bottle of glazed white porcelain with underglaze blue decoration of a dragon amid clouds, chasing the flaming pearls. The bottle has a long narrow neck with a slightly everted rim, and a voluminous globular body on a circular foot. The neck of the bottle displays brown banding under the glaze, also present on the interior, indicating use of iron rich clay in the body. The cobalt is also iron rich and shows signs of the 'heaping and piled' effect where it breaks through the glaze.
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![[Landscape and Poem: "Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District" by Wei Yingwu (737–792), Landscape and Poem: "Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District" by Wei Yingwu (737–792)]](https://smartcollection.uchicago.edu/apis/iiif/image/v2/54429/full/384,/0/default.jpg)
