Mother-of-Pearl Folding Screen Banquet Procession
“A grand royal procession captured in shimmering shellwork — a quiet epic unfolding panel by panel.” This magnificent mother-of-pearl folding screen, stretching an impressive 97 cm across, captures the splendour of a royal banquet procession with breathtaking intricacy. Every panel is alive with movement — musicians, dancers, soldiers, horses, banners, ceremonial objects — each one rendered entirely in luminous shellwork that shifts gently with the light. Rather than depicting the king himself, this artwork follows the classical tradition of Korean royal paintings, where the majesty of the court is evoked not through the monarch’s presence but through the elaborate world surrounding him. Her
$5,382.00
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