Painting: Flowers And Auspicious Symbols (Hwahwe-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 E77052-1], painting original # 2: "Glue color folk painting on paper, of a vase filled with flowers (hwabun-do). Used for room decoration. 57 x 67.5 cm." Smithsonian Photographic Services color transparency negative number 79-11956.
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Color on paper. The vase on a stand is filled with hibiscus, chrysanthemum, lotus, bellflower, ornamental grasses and grapes. Alongside is a fish bowl with two fish. A vase decorated with yin-yang symbols alone holds wild roses. The vase below contains peonies, emblematic of feminine beauty and wealth. Another object on the floor is a citron (Citrus decumana) or yuja in Korean, a fertility symbol due to its homonym, yuja, meaning having sons or children. Hough states that" These paintings would be usually seen in living rooms of the common people." More specifically, paintings of a flower vase combined with fertility symbols decorate women's quarters. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 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 129]
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: E77052-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 67.5 cm
label: Width
content: 52 cm