Embroidered Screen (10 Leaves) "Su B'yongp'ung"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Jun 1901
name: label: Donor Name
content: Adm Robert W. Shufeldt
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Screen identified by Chang-su Houchins 4-12-1985. [See card for screen title in ideographs.] "Su munbang-do (embroidered painting of bookpiles and other ornamented objects associated with gentlemen's study). This type of screen is also called "Ch'aekkôri [Chaekgeori] B'yongp'ung [or P'yongp'ung]." Ref.: The Inner Art: Korean Screens, by Evelyn B. McCune. Berkeley: Asia Humanities Press, 1983." Illus. Fig. 5, pp. 32-33 in: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. 1998. Hopes and aspirations: decorative painting of Korea. San Francisco: The Museum. Identified there as an embroidered 10-panel folding ch'aekkôri [chaekgeori] screen, silk embroidery on silk, by anonymous palace embroiderers, late 19th century; approx. 60 x 200 in.. There is a label - Sumunbangdo - written in Chinese characters on the back of the mounting, which translates: "Embroidered scholar's room picture." Screen was photographed in sections as 4 x 5 color transparencies; the negative numbers for the images of the 10 individual screen sections/panels on file with Smithsonian Photographic Services/SPS are 2000-10604 through 2000-10613. The order, from left to right, of the individual panel shot neg. #s would be 2000-10606, 2000-10607, 2000-10608, 2000-10605, 2000-10604, 2000-10609, 2000-10610, 2000-10611, 2000-10612, 2000-10613. NHB2014-00046 is a stitched composite color digital tiff overall view of all ten panels of the screen produced by the NMNH Imaging office, with the other images being 4" x 5" color transparency shots of each individual section/panel.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, South Korea, Asia
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: 038151
label: USNM Number
content: E211226-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Screen
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: ca. 166 cm
label: Width - One Panel
content: ca. 43.5 cm