Embroidered Folding Screen
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Mar 2003
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Young-Yang Chung
notes: label: Notes
content: Screen depicts two white peacocks, East Asian symbols of nobility and wealth, in a garden of peonies, Korean symbols of virtue. Rendered in a highly realistic style, using textured threads and padding to create realistic effects. Mostly satin stitch, with seed stitch and other stitches. Embroidered with both machine-made needles and hand-made needles with flat heads and large eyes. Untwisted, hand-twisted and textured threads were used to create different textures. The ground fabric is blue silk ('gong dan' in Korean) and the pattern was transferred to the ground fabric using carbon paper. The frame for each panel was constructed of wood and covered on one side with several layers of rice paper. After the embroidery was finished, the threads on the back were secured by gluing the ground fabric to the rice paper backing on the screen frames. The back is covered with a cotton fabric dyed dark blue. See accession file for copy of article about this object.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New York City, New York, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2019449
label: USNM Number
content: E430783-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Screen
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object, Total
content: 352 cm
label: Length - Each Panel
content: 44 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 1.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 181 cm