Still life with bronze vessels and plants
Still life with bronze vessels and plants

© Baik Yoon Moon

Still life with bronze vessels and plants
Still life with bronze vessels and plants

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Still life with bronze vessels and plants,

early 20th century

Baik Yoon Moon 白潤文, 1906–1979; born Seoul, South Korea; active Washington, DC, and New York, NY

Korean

Modern period, 1912–present

2015-6701
This pair of paintings, mounted in a Korean two-screen format, depicts auspicious objects meant to bring good fortune to the viewer. Made using the inky brushstrokes characteristic of Chinese literati painting, a style long associated with scholar-artists and popular in Korea, such decorative paintings portray objects, plants, and vegetables in harmonious and symbolic scenes of joyful bounty. On the top of the left screen, a tall Chinese bronze vessel on a wooden stand holds flowering branches. Below, another ornate vessel—likely ceramic based on its shape—holds plants, and at the bottom an ancient Chinese bronze vessel sits near a squash and flowers. On the right screen, a ceramic vase with a crackled glaze holds a bonsai tree. A lingzhi mushroom, an enduring symbol of longevity in East Asia, sits in the foreground, below a jug on a wooden base.

Information

Title
Still life with bronze vessels and plants
Dates

early 20th century

Maker
Baik Yoon Moon 白潤文
Medium
Two-panel folding screen: ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Painting (each): 129 × 45.7 cm (50 13/16 × 18 in.) Mount (each): 181.7 × 50.1 cm (71 9/16 × 19 3/4 in.) Frame: 184 × 103 cm (72 7/16 × 40 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ewon Baik, Class of 2013, Ejeong Baik, Class of 2016, and the Baik Family
Object Number
2015-6701
Place Made

Asia, Korea

Signatures
Signed: 香塘 Hyang-dang (artist's pen name)
Marks/Labels/Seals
artist seals
Culture
Korean
Type
paintings, screens (furniture)
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Subject
flowers (plants), pitchers, vases, bonsai trees, still lifes

early 20th century Baik Yoon Moon, 1906–1979, by inheritance to Ewon Baik, Ejeong Baik, and Baik family (Seongnam, Korea).
–2015 Ewon Baik Baik, Ejeong Baik, and Baik family (Seongnam, Korea), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2015.

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