Brush Holder with Bamboo and Landscape Design, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.

Brush Holder with Bamboo and Landscape Design, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.

2-724-885 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Brush Holder with Bamboo and Landscape Design, 1800s. 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.


Image Details


Medium
  1. Carved bamboo

Picture Type
  1. Wood

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3982x3679
File Size : 42,920kb


Aliases

  1. 1988.74
  1. 154264
  1. 0940021683
  1. 1988.74
  1. 2-724-885
  1. 2724885


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