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Subject:Identifying Chinese or Korean antique screen remnant?
Posted By: Kristine Wed, Jul 23, 2014 IP: 50.138.227.50 Could anyone identify the origin, period, etc. of this painting? It was purchased 25 years ago from the recently-closed Hurst Gallery of ethnographic art in Cambridge, Mass. |
Subject:Re: Identifying Chinese or Korean antique screen remnant?
Posted By: rat Thu, Jul 24, 2014 I think this is indeed Korean, but shows the two dragons and five divinities said by the Shi Ji to have materialized over Confucius's home at his birth in 551BC. See the following links: |
Subject:Re: Identifying Chinese or Korean antique screen remnant?
Posted By: Kristine Fri, Jul 25, 2014 Thank you so much! |
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