Footed Tray (1900s): Art, History and Details

Footed Tray (1900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In Korea, paper has been widely used since the 1800s for constructing stationery and storage boxes, as well as for paraphernalia for the scholar's studio. This tray's modest appearance belies both the laborious process involved in its construction and its status in Korea as an object for the scholar's desk.

Object facts

• Title: Footed Tray
• Date: 1900s
• Culture: Korea
• Type: Lacquer
• Technique: lacquer over twisted and coiled paper
• Dimensions: Overall: 34.2 x 9 x 9 cm (13 7/16 x 3 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1988.248

A detail from the museum

The artist first cords and twines paper before constructing a desired shape.

Collection credit

Gift of Bernice Sapirstein Davis in memory of Jennie Sapirstein

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Amy. "Jiseung: A Journey into the Korean Art of Weaving Paper.” Kyoto Journal (2013).
• Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.