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Ancient Chinese Bronzes
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated late 1800s. Recorded culture or place: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910).
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- Museum title
- Ancient Chinese Bronzes
- Date
- late 1800s
- Culture / origin
- Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Materials and technique
- Ten-panel folding screen; embroidery, gold silk threads on black silk
- Dimensions
- Each panel: 147.3 x 34.5 cm (58 x 13 9/16 in.); Overall framed: 224.9 x 493.2 cm (88 9/16 x 194 3/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2020.86
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This embroidered folding screen depicts a set of bronze vessels. While the subject of bronze vessels is part of mainstream male elite culture, which centered on ancestral rituals, the written text that accompanies each bronze vessel expresses the idea of evoking good fortune and wishing for many children. The is perhaps related to the idea that those who diligently perform rituals for the spirit of ancestors could have all their aspirations realized.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM, and Roberta Carroll, M.D., in recognition of the contribution of Marjorie Williams to the development of The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0
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