Embroidered Screen with Design of Longevity Symbols
Date18th Century
Object PlaceKorea, East Asia, Asia
MediumEmbroidery on silk ground
Dimensionsoverall dimensions: 55½ x 144 in.
141.0 x 365.8 cm
overall each panel: 55½ x 18 in.
141.0 x 45.7 cm
image dimension, each panel:
46 x 16¼ in.
116.8 x 41.3 cm
141.0 x 365.8 cm
overall each panel: 55½ x 18 in.
141.0 x 45.7 cm
image dimension, each panel:
46 x 16¼ in.
116.8 x 41.3 cm
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase with funds given as a Centennial gift by the Founders Junior Council and with funds from the Korean Community
Object number1985.14
DescriptionEmbroidery on silk ground, eight-panel folding screen with design of longevity motifs. Continuous landscape over full width incorporating the ten longevity symbols of sun, clouds, water, mountains, pine, bamboo, cranes, deer, tortoise and fungus.On View
Not on view
17th Century
1700-1800
1781
16th Century
18th Century
17th/18th Century
c. 1906
c 1878
1897-1898
early 19th Century
before 1826
c. 1490