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According to the embroideries’s template found at the National Palace Museum of Korea, the first, second, seventh and eighth panels belong to the V&A, while the whereabout of the remaining four panels are currently unknown.\r\nHere, the flowers are simply but elegantly rendered, suggesting the collaboration between professional court painters from the Royal Office of Painting (Dohwaseo) and embroiderers from the Joseon Royal Court Bureau of Embroidery (Subang). Glossy, colourful, twisted silk threads were delicately sewn onto a yellow-dyed plain satin-weave silk background.\r\nThe Chinese characters form a poem praising the king’s virtue and wishing him a long and peaceful reign (taepyeongseongdae). Its four lines of four characters may have formed narratives (changsa) sung or recited during court dances (jeongjaemu) performed at celebratory banquets at the royal palace. \r\nTwo similar folding screens with eight panels were awarded by King Gojong (1852-1919) to American missionaries who made outstanding contributions towards Korea. \r\n","physicalDescription":"A bedside folding screen composed of four silk panels embroidered with floral bouquets alternating with auspicious characters (Hwachogilsangmun). 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Registered File number 1991/1823.\r\n\r\nEmbroidered screens of this type adorned the living quarters of queens and princesses in the late Chosôn period in Seoul. Executed by the court governess in charge of embroidery, the multi-coloured designs on each panel typically illustrate a four-line verse in Chinese characters of a song performed during court celebrations.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Folding screen, 4 panels, silk with coloured embroidery depicting flowers and Chinese characters, Korea, 1885-1910","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wilson, Verity, 'Celebrating Twenty-five years in the Far Eastern collection of the V&A' in <u>Orientations</u>, 1995, p.532"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Huh, Dong-hwa (Ho, Tong-hwa), <u>Classical Korean Embroideries</u>, Seoul(?):Korea-Britain Centennial Committee : International Cultural Society of Korea, 1984, chapter 7"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Huh, Dong-hwa (Ho, Tong-hwa), <u>The Collection of Traditional Embroideries in Korea</u> Kyoto: Dohosha, 1982, pp116-125"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kim, Rosalie, 'Hwachogilsangmun embroidery panels in the Victoria and Albert Museum', in 'The 1st International Symposium Conservation and Restoration of Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage', 2019, pp.128-139."},{"reference":{"text":"Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. <u>Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion</u>. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. 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