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Brush Holder with Bamboo and Landscape Design
Brush Holder with Bamboo and Landscape Design
대나무 산수무늬 팔각필통 (竹山水文八各筆筒)
1800s
Korea, Joseon dynasty
(1392-1910)
Carved bamboo
Overall: 10.1 x 9 cm (4 x 3 9/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1988.74
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Stationery objects such as this brush holder were highly appreciated among scholars, not only for their function, but for their aesthetic.
Description
An 18th-century Korean collector Yu Man-joo (1755–1788) wrote that “spending money on luxury clothing, dishes, and decorations for the home is a waste, but acquiring fancy writing tools helps to develop elegant taste and high-mindedness.”
Inspired by aesthetic discourses on elegance versus vulgarity in late Ming Chinese literature, Korean collectors in the late 1700s and 1800s strove to assemble objects that would display their intellect and sophisticated taste. Stationery objects in particular—printed books, finely crafted brushes, brush holders, ink stones, water droppers, stone wares with grayish-white crackled glazes as well as bronze vessels, and incense burners—were all objects that reflected pure and elegant taste.
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