Painting: Pheasants And Birds, Plum And Moon (Ssangchi Hwajo-Do)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: From card [for all 12 paintings, E77052-0 through E77052-11]: "12 Glue-color folk paintings on paper, used for room decoration or storeroom door amulets. - Chang-su Houchins. See pp. 468-9 in "The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Korean Collections in the U.S. National Museum" by Walter Hough in USNM AR 1891. All 12 paintings are described there."
label: Notes
content: From card [for E77052-3], painting original # 4: "Glue color folk painting on paper, of golden pheasants, plum blossoms, grapes, and small birds perched on the plum tree branch (ssangch'i hwajo-do). Used for room decoration, in women's quarters. 52 x 92 cm. Smithsonian Photographic Services color transparency negative number 79-11961."
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Color on paper. In addition to birds and flower blossoms, the painting includes traditional auspicious symbols such as bamboo, rocks and streams. The pair of small swallows perched on top of the plum tree is placed within the sun disk. Flowers and birds are often paired with the sun, water, and rocks. Hwajo-do (bird-and-flower painting) were usually attached to small folding screens of eight panels in the rooms of newlyweds or women (Eom, 1994: 87). The pheasant is a common emblem of beauty and good fortune and also of love (Williams, 1976: 322323). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog, page 469; Houchins, 1982: 60-61; "MBM 'Miguk bangmul-gwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae' or The Korean Relics in the United States", 1989: 150" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 120]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, South Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77052-3
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 92 cm
label: Width
content: 52 cm