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ANONYMOUS (19TH CENTURY)
Emperor and Empress Audience Scenes
Pair of framed panel paintings, ink and color
on silk depicting a male and female dignitary
seated on elevated dias with multiple
attendants before stylized rocks
21 1/4 x 16 1/8in (54.2 x 41.4cm) paintings;
30 1/4 x 22 3/4in (77.8 x 58cm) overall

US$2,000 - 3,000
The figural depiction is similar to that
portrayed in Guo Ziyi’s Banquet, an
anonymous eight-fold screen of the early
19th century, illustrated in Sotheby’s, New
York, Korean Works of Art, sale 6310
(‘Misul’), lot 72.

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ANONYMOUS (19TH CENTURY) The longevity symbols or sipjangsaeng,
Symbols of Longevity (Sipjangsaeng-do) expressing the wish for a long and healthy
Ink and color on paper mounted as a two- life, include: the sun (hae), mountains (san),
panel screen water (su), clouds (gureum), rocks (dol), pine
30 1/4 x 52 7/8in (77.2 x 134.1cm) each trees (so-namu), mushroom-of-immortality
panel [yeongji-beseot] (bullsho), turtles (geobuk),
white cranes (baek-hak), deer (saseum), and
US$12,000 - 15,000 occasionally bamboo (juk/daenamu).

For a similar, but larger, screen, see
Hongnam Kim, ed., Korean Arts of the
Eighteenth Century: Splendor and Simplicity
(New York: Asia Society, 1994), pp. 116-117,
pl. 18.

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