Joseon, ink and colour on silk
Korean Painting
A small, quiet room of Korean painting. A scholar in a black robe and horsehair hat, bamboo bending in wind, a hawk on a rock under a red morning sun, ten panels of birds and flowers on gold. Ink and colour on silk from the Joseon centuries, most of it gone warm brown with age, which is how silk keeps time.
As a puzzle
The slowest table here after the ink painting. The silk has darkened very evenly, so long stretches of one piece look like any other, and you find your way by the dark ink and the few places colour survives. The screens come out more than twice as wide as they are tall, the scrolls twice as tall as wide. Keep the count low.
A good size here: 40–120 pieces.
10 pictures, pick one to build
Gathering of government officials Unidentified artist, calligraphy dated 1565 
Bamboo in the Wind Yi Jeong (artist name: Taneun), early 17th century 
Portrait of Yun Dongseom (1710–1795) Unidentified artist, ca. 1790–1805 
Shakyamuni triad Unidentified artist, 1565 
Birds and Flowers Unidentified artist, late 19th–early 20th century 
The Banquet of Guo Ziyi Unknown, late 19th century 
Still life with bronze vessels and flowering plants Jang Seung-eop (sobriquet: Owon), 1894 
Guanyin Seated on a Lotus Throne Unknown, 15th century 
Hawk at Sunrise Jeong Hong-Rae 정홍래 鄭弘來, second half 18th century–first half 19th century 
Figures with dragons Unidentified artist, late 19th–early 20th century