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PROPERTY FROM THE KAY BLACK FAMILY
COLLECTION OF KOREAN PAINTINGS

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A SET OF SIX MUNCHADO PAINTINGS                                            ANONYMOUS
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1897), 19th century                            Landscapes and Poems
Ink and slight colors on paper, mounted on panels, the ideographs          Korea, Late 19th/Early 20th century
boldly painted and superimposed with designs of animals, insects           Ten-panel folding screen, ink and slight color on paper, delicately
flowers and auspicious emblems, and with related poems                     painted with landscapes and poems.
31 1/2 x 11 1/4in (80 x 28cm)                                              Painting: 39 3/4 x 13in (101 x 33cm); with mounting: 67 x 17 1/2 each
                                                                           panel (170.2 x 44.5cm)
US$3,000 - 5,000
                                                                           US$8,000 - 12,000
Munchado are pictorial characters that are intertwined with decorative
designs. The characters however, are still recognizable and express        The colophons on the landscape paintings are the九曲棹歌 the
the Eight Cardinal Princples of Confucian Morality. Each virtue is         Jiuqu Zhaoge ('The Oar song of the Nine Bends') by the Song Neo-
represented by a single character. This set of six paintings feature the   Confucian Zhu Xi 朱熹each describing a different bend of 'The Nine
following characters: 孝 (hyo), 悌 (che), 信 (shin), 廉 (yom), 禮 (yae) and     Bend River' of Wuyi mountain.
義 (ui). Two paintings from the set, 忠 (ch'ung) and 恥 (chia), are now
lost.                                                                      武夷山上有仙靈，山下寒流曲曲清。
                                                                           欲識個中奇絕處，棹歌閑聽兩三聲。
Provenance                                                                 　　一曲溪邊上釣船，幔亭峰影蘸晴川。
Emille Museum, 1976                                                        　　虹橋一斷無消息，萬壑千岩鎖翠煙。
                                                                           　　二曲亭亭玉女峰，插花臨水爲誰容。
On loan to the Denver Art Museum 2001-2016                                 　　道人不作陽臺夢，興入前山翠幾重。
                                                                           　　三曲君看駕壑船，不知停棹幾何年。
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ANONYMOUS                                                                  　　四曲東西兩石岩，岩花垂露碧監毿。
Birds, animals and flowers                                                 　　金雞叫罷無人見，月滿空山水滿潭。
Korea, Late Joseon dynasty,early 20th century                              　　五曲山高雲氣深，長時煙雨暗平林。
Ink and color of silk, mounted as a 10-panel screen                        　　林間有客無人識，矣乃聲中萬古心。
skillfully painted with various exotic birds, phoenix and deer set off by  　　六曲蒼屏繞碧灣，茆茨終日掩柴關。
rocky outcroppings and blossoming plants                                   　　客來倚棹岩花落，猿鳥不驚春意閑。
Each Painting: 52 x 16in (132.7 x 40.6cm; Overall height 81 x 172 (206     　　七曲移舟上碧灘，隱屏仙掌更回看。
x 438cm)                                                                   　　卻憐昨夜峰頭雨，添得飛泉幾道寒。
                                                                           　　八曲風煙勢欲開，鼓樓岩下水縈回。
US$5,000 - 8,000                                                           　　莫言此地無佳景，自是遊人不上來。
                                                                           　　九曲將窮眼豁然，桑麻雨露見平川。
                                                                           　　漁郎更覓桃源路，除是人間別有天。

                                                                           For a screen of a related subject, see Yang-mo Chŏng Arts of Korea:
                                                                           the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
                                                                           1998, p. 338

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