id: 155420 accession number: 1990.15 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.15 updated: 2022-01-04 17:08:25.159000 Scroll Box with Dragon and Phoenix Design, 1700s-1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Lacquered wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl and twisted brass and copper wire; overall: 11.5 x 11.6 x 87 cm (4 1/2 x 4 9/16 x 34 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1990.15 title: Scroll Box with Dragon and Phoenix Design title in original language: 나전 용·봉황무늬 서류함 (螺鈿龍鳳文書類函) series: series in original language: creation date: 1700s-1800s creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection copyright: --- culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) technique: lacquered wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl and twisted brass and copper wire department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Lacquer find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 11.5 x 11.6 x 87 cm (4 1/2 x 4 9/16 x 34 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art opening date: 1992-09-22T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 1992-January 3, 1993). title: Object in Focus: Scroll Box with Dragon and Phoenix Design, 1800s; Korea; (inlaid mother-of-pearl; 1990.15) opening date: 2002-07-16T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Scroll Box with Dragon and Phoenix Design, 1800s; Korea; (inlaid mother-of-pearl; 1990.15). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 16-September 15, 2002). title: Conversation about Diversity in Korean Embroidery Arts- Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2020-01-27T05:00:00 Conversation about Diversity in Korean Embroidery Arts- Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 27-October 27, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Object in Focus: Scroll Box with Dragon and Phoenix Design. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16- September 15, 2002). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 26, 2013-January 12, 2015). --- PROVENANCE (Yoshiyuki Hosomi, Osaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1990- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This technique of using the inlays of iridescent mother-of-pearl and abalone shells has been practiced in Korea for over a thousand years, digital description: wall description: This large rectangular box was designed for keeping a scroll or an important document. The mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquer rendering of a dragon and phoenix combines texture, color, and shape to produce a dazzling effect. The large and prominent designs of the Joseon-period inlaid lacquer, like on this box, replaced the fine detail and mosaic-like patterns popular in the Goryeo period (918-1392). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cunningham, Michael R. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 135 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 248 url: Hwang, Jii-hyeon, and Sadamu Kawada. Korean Lacquerware Inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl: The Everlasting Beauty. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2010. page number: url: Korean Lacquer Art: Aesthetic Perfection, Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2012. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.15/1990.15_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.15/1990.15_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.15/1990.15_full.tif