Box with Painted Oxhorn
1800s
Maker Unknown
Korean Art
Box with Painted Oxhorn, 1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Painted wood with flattened ox-horn inlay; overall: 16.5 x 28.6 cm (6 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Purchase Fund 1920.37 This box is made of small flattened pieces of oxhorn. Since oxhorn is usually rather small, possibly dozens of them were used to fully decorate even a small wooden object like this box.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Formatted Medium
- painted wood with flattened ox-horn inlay
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16.5 x 28.6 cm (6 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Korean Art
- Accession Number
- 1920.37
- Credit Line
- Sundry Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- Scholar's Studio, Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art, Korean Gallery 236 Rotation, Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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