Joseon period (1392-1910), 19th century, eight panel screen with ink and colors on paper, this exceptional Korean screen is decorated with a tiger hunt, a popular theme during the late Joseon period, the painting exemplifies the bravery and skill of the hunters, finely depicted in vivid mineral colors and fashionable attire bearing elaborate banners in pursuit of tigers, foxes, boars, and deer across a rocky landscape.

DOA 69.75 x 177.5 in.; SS panel 45.5 x 18 in.

Private Consignment, Greensboro, North Carolina

The eight painted panels were acquired in the 1970s and cleaned, conserved, and mounted in the traditional Korean style.

Similar to an eight panel Korean hunting screen in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.239.
Korean paintings, especially as finely detailed and articulated with expensive mineral colors as here, were typically reserved for the noble class or high ranking military and government officials in Korea, making this a rare treasure.

Some minor restoration to painting and professionally mounted by a Washington conservation studio.

$5,000 - 10,000