# Birds and Flowers

- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Alan Carter Covell and Kyu J. Pak-Covell
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.80)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.80/1991.80_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.