A Painted Ivory and An Oxhorn-Mounted Wood Spool

CHOSON PERIOD (CIRCA 1900)

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A Painted Ivory and An Oxhorn-Mounted Wood Spool
Choson period (circa 1900)
One of ivory of lozenge shape painted in red, yellow and black with flowers and phoenixes, and one of wood applied with reverse-painted oxhorn painted in red, green, white and black with a dragon and clouds
4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) and 4 1/8in. (10.4cm.) long (2)

Lot Essay

For other spools 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. 142.

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