id: 169545 accession number: 2011.37 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.37 updated: 2020-09-11 09:02:06.167000 Books and Scholars’ Accouterments, late 1800s. Yi Taek-gyun (Korean, 1808-after 1883). Ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk; overall: 197.5 x 395 cm (77 3/4 x 155 1/2 in.); painting only: 139.3 x 330.8 cm (54 13/16 x 130 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2011.37 title: Books and Scholars’ Accouterments title in original language: 책가도 (冊架圖) series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) technique: ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk department: Korean Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yi Taek-gyun (Korean, 1808-after 1883) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 197.5 x 395 cm (77 3/4 x 155 1/2 in.); Painting only: 139.3 x 330.8 cm (54 13/16 x 130 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens opening date: 2017-08-05T04:00:00 Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 5-November 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 27, 2014-January 12, 2015). --- PROVENANCE (Christie's New York, Japanese & Korean Art, New York, NY, 23 March 2011, lot 992, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2011 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2011- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The third panel from the right bears a hidden seal, which reveals the artist: Yi Taek-gyun, a prominent court artist active in the late 1800s. digital description: Functioning the same way as a signature in Western art, a seal impression on a chaekgeori screen is sometimes included to reveal the painter’s identity. It is called a “hidden” seal due to its discreet placement. Only about 12 works with such a “hidden” seal are known today. This screen has one on the third panel (from the right). Examined recently, the characters in the seal impression revealed that Yi Taek-gyun, a prominent court artist, is the creator of the museum’s painted screen. wall description: First produced around the second half of the eighteenth century, chaekgado (literally, “pictures of bookshelves”) flourished throughout the 1800s. First developed as a royal emblem during the reign of King Jeongjo (r. 1776–1800), chaekgado became a popular furnishing item among aristocrats.

The CMA screen consists of 35 compartments containing a variety of artful utilitarian objects, and antiquities in addition to multiple volumes of books. The complete list of the painted motifs in the CMA screen is as follows:
A red container decorated in a gilded dragon pattern (first panel); a brush holder possibly made of bamboo, a red container with a lid for storing seal paste, and a brush washer with gilding on blue ground (second panel); a group of ink seals (one seal facing forward) resting on a pile of books, an ink stone resting on its own customized wood stand, and a globular incense burner placed on a sizable table (third panel); a brownish gray yixing tea pot paired with a green tea cup, a plate of pomegranates and fingered citrons propped by its customized wooden stand (fourth panel); a wood-root container possibly for storing scrolls of paper, a slender vase to hold an incense spade and chopsticks paired with a tall incense burner with a red lacquer lid, and a gray container with black spotted pattern that holds two rolls of scrolls (fifth); a three-tier lunch container, a red cup with a lid, and a slender vase with crackle pattern, and a plate of narcissus flowers and a water container (sixth); a roll scroll, a slender vase to hold an incense spade and chopsticks paired with a red incense burner with a tripod decorated with raised studded bosses, and a peach-shaped charm hung on a red wooden stand (seventh); a bronze vase with the central swelling section that holds a branch of coral and a peacock feather, a lidded tea cup with crackle pattern, and a cup possibly carved of rhinoceros horn (eighth); a red plate decorated with gilding, a bright green bronze vase decorated with roundel or whorl circle patterns that holds a branch of cut-flowers, possibly peonies, and a red cup decorated with gilding (ninth); a wood-root brush holder paired with a water dropper in the shape of mountain (tenth). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Black, Kay E., and Edward W. Wagner. "Ch'aekkŏri Paintings: A Korean Jigsaw Puzzle." Archives of Asian Art 46 (1993): 63-75. page number: url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111228 Sin, Mi-ran. “Objects in Chaekgeori Paintings [책거리 그림과 器物硏究].” Misul sahak yeongu (2010): 169-194. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01751774 Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc, New York. Japanese & Korean Art. 23 March 2011. Lot 992. page number: Reproduced: lot 992 url: Ahn, Dae-hoe. "Hobby life and Cultural phenomena in the Late Joseon Dynasty [조선 후기 취미생활과 문화현상]." Hanguk munhwa (2012): 65-96. page number: url: The City in Art, Art in the City [미술 속 도시, 도시 속 미술]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2016. page number: url: McCormick, Sooa Im. “Taste of Distinction: Screens of Scholar’s Accouterments." In Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens. Albany: SUNY Series in Korean Studies, 2017. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: 50-62. url: Chung, Byung-mo and Sunglim Kim. Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens. Albany: SUNY Series in Korean Studies, 2017. page number: url: Beyond Folding Screens [조선, 병풍의 나라]. Seoul: Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2018. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.37/2011.37_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.37/2011.37_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.37/2011.37_full.tif