A LARGE KOREAN SIX-PANEL 'ONE HUNDRED BOYS' BAEKJADO FOLDING SCREEN

A LARGE KOREAN SIX-PANEL 'ONE HUNDRED BOYS' BAEKJADO FOLDING SCREEN
Joseon Dynasty, Mid-19th Century

조선, 19세기 중반 백 명의 어린이 병풍

The six-panel folding screen, with inset with a painting depicting the theme of one hundred boys playing in a garden scene, among various pavillions, the first scene with boys leading a deer, the second panel depicting an animal dancing with a fan, the third panel with the boys wrestling, the fourth panel with a cockerel fight, , the fith with the boys climing a plum blossom tree to pick up blossoms and the sixth panel depicting a scholarly figure being attended, the back of the screen with the middle four panels paper-backed and flanked by the further panels which are fabric-backed.

221cm wide x 148cm high

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PROVENANCE:

Property of a Californian Estate

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NOTE:

Please refer to another screen dating to the Joseon Dynasty from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection now housed in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, collection no. 2015.79.458; another in the Walters Art Museum, collection no. 35.199; for another ten-panel baekjado screen on paper, see Robert Moes, Auspicious Spirits: Korean Folk Paintings and Related Objects, Washington D. C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1983, no. 14, pp. 56-57 and 186.