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Very Rare 18th Century Spirit Shrine Painting browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Korean:Paintings: Pre 1800: item # 871363 Please refer to our stock # 0337 when inquiring.
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| Very Rare 18th Century Korean Spirit Shrine Painting (Kam Mo Yo Je Do). Spirit House Paintings are in the collections of several major museums. This is likely the only 18th Century Spirit House Painting you will ever see offered for sale. An extremely scarce and very collectible piece of Antique Korean Folk Art. This painting would have been placed in a place of reverence in the home, and on the anniversary of an ancestor's death, a slip of paper with the ancestor's name would be placed on the blank space in the open doorway of the shrine in the painting and a ritual would have been performed in front of the painting. Kammo means 'to adore with deep emotion' and Yoje means 'to respectfully address the spirits as if they were at the ceremony', and Do means 'painting'. A great and rare example of the 18th Century Korean sense of perspective in painting, a stronger and earlier example than the popular 19th Century examples of the sort of 'skewed' perspective that art lovers find so charming in antique Korean painting. Ink on paper. Frame: 37.5 x 27 inches, 95 x 68.5 cm; Painting: 31 x 21 inches, 79 x 53.5 cm. | ||
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