{
"data": {
"id": 97464,
"accession_number": "1917.1036",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Seal (\uccad\ub3d9 \uc778\uc7a5 [\u9751\u9285\u5370\u7ae0]), 918\u20131392. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918\u20131392). Bronze; overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); base: 1.5 x 1.4 cm (9/16 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1917.1036",
"current_location": null,
"title": "Seal",
"title_in_original_language": "\uccad\ub3d9 \uc778\uc7a5 [\u9751\u9285\u5370\u7ae0]",
"creation_date": "918\u20131392",
"creation_date_earliest": 918,
"creation_date_latest": 1392,
"artists_tags": [],
"culture": [
"Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918\u20131392)"
],
"technique": "bronze",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Korean Art",
"collection": "Korean Art",
"type": "Metalwork",
"measurements": "Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); Base: 1.5 x 1.4 cm (9/16 x 9/16 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.013,
"height_inch": 0,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.5
},
"base": {
"height": 0.015,
"height_inch": 0,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.5625,
"width": 0.014,
"width_inch": 0,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.5625
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "(Yamanaka and Company, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "?\u20131917",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1917\u2013",
"sortorder": 2
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [
"1402.1917"
],
"did_you_know": "A large quantity of bronze seals excavated from tombs of the Goryeo dynasty is closely related to the development of metallurgy in 13th-century Korea that allowed the transition from wood type to movable metal type printing.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "A large quantity of bronze seals were excavated from tombs of the Goryeo dynasty. This turtle-shaped seal bears two inscribed characters: \u9ad8\u826f, meaning \"great integrity.\" The red cinnabar paste is still visible, indicating it must have been used to sign various documents, while its owner was still alive.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79481940"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1917.1036-seal"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Choi, Eung-chon. \u201cCraftsmen in Metal Arts in the Goryeo Dynasty [\uace0\ub824\uc2dc\ub300 \u91d1\u5c6c\u5de5\u85dd\uc758 \u5320\u4eba].\u201d Misulsahak yeongu (2004): 171-192.",
"page_number": null,
"url": "http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE00996932"
},
{
"citation": "Choi, Eung-chon. \u201cMetal Arts in the Late Goryeo Period [\uace0\ub824\ud6c4\uae30\uc758 \uae08\uc18d\uacf5\uc608].\u201d Kangjwa misulsa (2004): 125-156.",
"page_number": null,
"url": "http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE09054886"
},
{
"citation": "Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The spirit of Goryeo in metalcrafts [\uae08\uc18d\uacf5\uc608\uc5d0\uae43\ub4e0\uace0\ub824\uc778\uc758\uc0b6]. Seoul: Jeju National Museum and National Cheongju Museum, 2011.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 25, fig. 13",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bronze in Life and Art [\uc0b6\uacfc \uc608\uc220 \uc18d. \uccad\ub3d9 \u9751\u9285 \uc774\uc57c\uae30] National Cheongju Museum (2016).",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [\ub300\uace0\ub824, \uadf8 \ucc2c\ub780\ud55c \ub3c4\uc804]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hu\u0306i. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 115, no. 77",
"url": ""
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.1036",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1036/1917.1036_web.jpg",
"width": "929",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "92524",
"filename": "1917.1036_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1036/1917.1036_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "3270",
"filesize": "974616",
"filename": "1917.1036_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1036/1917.1036_full.tif",
"width": "1491",
"height": "1434",
"filesize": "6442548",
"filename": "1917.1036_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1036/1917.1036_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "1193",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "89648"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1036/1917.1036_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "2545",
"filesize": "700428"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1036/1917.1036_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "2184",
"height": "1635",
"filesize": "10740984"
},
"date_created": "2012-04-16T13:01:17",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 97464,
"creators": [],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1917-07-06T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 918,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "918\u20131392",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-05-29 05:15:12.529000"
}
}