Birds and Flowers
late 1800s
- Medium
- Ten-panel folding screen with designs and inscriptions burnt into paper (pyrography)
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 153.5 x 443 cm (60 7/16 x 174 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Korean Art
- Credit line
- Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Alan Carter Covell and Kyu J. Pak-Covell
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The image depicted on this folding screen is not executed in ink, but rather a method called “pyrography" or "nakhwa,” a technique of burning the surface of materials ranging from wood to paper with the delicately controlled application of a heated metal tool. This technique became widely popular in the 19th century. Scorched marks here replace brush strokes. Nakhwa method is now designated as a Korean Intangible Cultural Asset by the Korean government.
