Set of Four Painted Characters (early 1900s): Art, History and Details
Set of Four Painted Characters at the Cleveland Museum of Art: early 1900s, hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; unmounted. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Set of Four Painted Characters (early 1900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This set of four colorful hanging scrolls may have been used in an outdoor Buddhist ritual to evoke heavenly blessings. Each hanging scroll bears four different characters: tiger, dragon, whistle, and recite. Traditionally, tiger and dragon belong to the four directional guards, respectively west and east.
Object facts
- Title: Set of Four Painted Characters
- Date: early 1900s
- Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Type: Painting
- Technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; unmounted
- Dimensions: Overall: 236.5 x 80.3 cm (93 1/8 x 31 5/8 in.)
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Department: Korean Art
- Accession number: 1998.119
Collection credit
Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in memory of Alan Priest
Further reading listed by the museum
- Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.
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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.
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