Painting: Scholar's Articles (Ch'aekkori)
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 E77052-6], painting original # 7: "Glue color folk painting on paper, book-pile painting with flowers and birds (hwajo ch'aekkori). Used for cabinet door decoration. 30.5 x 34 cm." Smithsonian Photographic Services color transparency negative number 79-11959.
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Color woodcut. A painting of books, such as this one, includes not only those objects commonly considered scholar's paraphernalia, but others imagined to be associated with scholars. Some of these items are unrelated. Here a dish of peaches (symbolic of longevity) is placed on top of the pile of books. Objects, in "bookpile" paintings, can include: teakettle, game table, fan, clock, vase, even a woman's skirt, shoes, crown of flowers worn at weddings, and a variety of plants and animals. Variants of bookpile paintings are munbangsau-do (paintings of scholars' four friends, namely paper, brush, inkstick, and inkstone) and munbangu-do (painting of stationery). Also pictured in this print are: coral and peacock feathers in a vase, several empty jars, and a stand for rolled stationery or durumari. A bowknot, wavy lines and spirals used in amulets (bujeok) decorate the main objects. This small single-sheet print, unlike a painting for a screen, was used to decorate a stationery chest door, usually affixed to the inside of the door panel, or to decorate the door leading to a darak, a loft over the kitchen used as a storage area. The door of the darak led into the adjoining main room. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 469; Houchins, 1982: 61-63; "MBM 'Miguk bangmul-gwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae' or The Korean Relics in the United States", 1989: 148" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 122]
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: E77052-6
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 34.5 cm
label: Width
content: 30 cm