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Munjado Screen, Yi Dynasty, Korea browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Korean:Paintings:Pre 1910: item # 168041 Please refer to our stock # 22-17 when inquiring.
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| From late 18th/early 19th century Korea, the striking characters on this four-panel folding screen represent four principles of Confucian morality. The paintings are called "munjado" and were used in Yi Dynasty households to teach Confucian virtues to children as well as to serve as daily reminders to adults about values they should uphold. Confucian ideals were then and still are exceptionally important in Korean society. The four Confucian principles represented on this screen are, left to right: trust, loyalty, brotherhood and filial honor. The characters on munjado screens generally are Chinese rather than Hangul, the Korean phonetic alphabet invented by a scholar in the 1400s. Although Hangul was adopted as the official Korean alphabet, the prestige of Chinese ideographs remained strong so continued to be used by the "yangban," the educated class. (See examples of munjado in "Korean Art from the Brooklyn Museum Collection" by Robert J. Moes, Universe Books, New York; see eight framed munjado we sold at auction in the Skinner auction catalogue "Oriental Works of Art," November 1993, cover and p. 79.) These four paintings are on rice paper mounted on silk. There is damage to the background of the character second from left; otherwise the paintings are in good condition. The backing on the screen--two panels covered with silk and two with paper--has been replaced. The backs of the outside panels are covered in subtly patterned yellow silk. Dimensions: height 36" (92 cm), width 66" (168 cm), depth 1" (3 cm). | |||||||||||||||
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