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Title
Bamboo
Description
Hanging scroll of brushed black ink on silk depicting bamboo. Inscription in the upper part of the painting signed by the artist and dated to 1908, with square seal below, and oval seal above. A second inscription, to the lower right, dedicates the painting to a Lord Bukjo (北條大人), with a circular seal below.
Title
Bamboo in Wind
Description
Hanging scroll of brushed black ink on paper, depicting windblown bamboo. Artist's inscription and two square seal impressions below. The uppermost, relief carved (朱文) seal reads 海岡, Gim Gyu-jin's ho (號). The lower intaglio (白文) seal is only partially legible with the first charcater reading 金. May originally have been mounted on a folding screen.
Title
Bamboo in Wind
Description
Hanging scroll painting of bamboo in black ink on paper.
Title
Bottle with Plant Decoration
Description
This particular ware was only produced at kilns located at the foot of the Gyeryong Mountains in the middle of the southern part of the Korean peninsula. Gyeryong kilns are located below a Buddhist monastery, and the distinctive monochrome imagery found on these wares, including fish and fowl, lotus flowers and, as here, fanciful flowering plants of undetermined variety (ginseng?), was inspired by the monochrome ink painting of Seon (Japanese, Zen) Buddhist monks, or that the designs on the pots may have been actually drawn by Seon monks. The bottle's form'trumpet-shaped mouth, short neck, flared lower body, and low foot'was very popular in buncheong ware, and this shape clearly shows cross-cultural influence from vessels popular in China during the Yuan and Ming periods.
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Bowl
Description
White porcelain bowl with a finely crackled glaze on the body and base, and an unglazed footring. The rim is slightly everted.
Title
Bowl
Description
Glazed stoneware (K: buncheong) with partial underglaze slip-painted decoration (J: Irabo type), and spiral groove incised into base.
Title
Bowl
Description
Gray stoneware with crackled celadon glaze. Grit adhering to footring, some gritty deposit inside, coarse "chatter marks" on lower outside body.
Title
Bowl with Cranes, Willow, and Lotus Plant Decoration
Description
Stoneware celadon glazed bowl with underglaze inlay (sanggam) decoration of cranes, willow, and lotus plants
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
Carp and Crab
Description
Hanging scroll painting of brushed black ink on silk of a carp and crab underwater.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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.
Title
Winter Landscape
Description
Hanging scroll painting of brushed ink and light color on paper, showing a wintry scene of a scholar reading in a cottage situated overlooking a lake, and set against a backdrop of mountains.
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
Indra and Heavenly Dragon General
Description
Hanging scroll with opaque mineral pigments, ink, and gold on cloth, now remounted flat on stretched linen. The painting shows Indra (K: Jeseok) seated on a throne to the right of the painting, accompanied by a retinue of lesser deities, and the Heavenly Dragon General standing to the left. Donor and artist inscriptions are situated on the lower left border of the painting.
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
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
Bowl
Description
Yellowish ware, heavily crackled cream/gray glaze, unglazed footring and base fired black.
Title
Bowl
Description
Stoneware with crackled celadon glaze, gritty deposit adhering to partly glazed footring and base.
Title
Bowl
Description
Crudely made bowl with slightly everted rim and rough cut foot-ring. Dirty gray glaze is heavily cracked and blemished, and a coagulated deposit adheres to the partly unglazed foot-ring and base. A raised almond-shaped patch, ground down, on the outer wall, probably resulted from accidental contact with another bowl in firing. Below the rim on the outside are two leafy sprays, freely painted in dull blue.
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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)
