An Oxhorn-Mounted Wood Ruler

CHOSON PERIOD (CIRCA 1900)

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An Oxhorn-Mounted Wood Ruler
Choson period (circa 1900)
Covered with reverse-painted oxhorn with six segments, the longest painted with a dragon and clouds in green, white and black on a red ground, and the four shorter sections painted with peonies, cranes and lotus in red, green, white and black on yellow grounds, the oval ends painted red
20 3/8in. (51.8cm.) long

Lot Essay

For another ruler in the collection of the Ewha Womans University Museum see Ho-Am Art Museum, ed., Treasures of the Late Choson Dynasty 1700-1910, exh. cat. (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation, 1998), pl. 141.

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