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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.
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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.
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Untitled
Description
Painting of loosely brushed and scattered black and colored inks over cream colored handmade paper.
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Untitled
Description
Loosely brushed framed painting in black and coloured inks on paper.
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Covered Cinerary or Reliquary (Sarira) Urn
Description
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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
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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.
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Bowl
Description
Yellowish ware, heavily crackled cream/gray glaze, unglazed footring and base fired black.
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Bowl
Description
Stoneware with crackled celadon glaze, gritty deposit adhering to partly glazed footring and base.
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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.
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).
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Small Bottle
Description
Crackled finish and darl brown painted unglazed foot-ring and base. This may be a Korean imitation of Chinese guan ware
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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.
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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.
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Water Dropper
Description
Late Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Formerly attributed as: Japanese, Showa period (1926-1989)
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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.
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