Birds and Flowers
- Medium
- Eight-panel folding screen, ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 59 × 120 1/2 in. (149.86 × 306.07 cm) (image) 77 1/2 × 143 1/8 × 3/8 in. (196.85 × 363.54 × 0.95 cm) (including mount) 59 × 15 1/16 in. (149.86 × 38.26 cm) (panel, each image )
- Genre
- Painting
Tags
Korea
About
An incredible variety of birds—ducks, pheasants, parrots, and others—pose and cavort among an equally diverse array of flowers, including lilies, peonies, chrysanthemums, and white and pink plum blossoms. Specific combinations of birds and flowers are almost always symbolic and auspicious. The ducks paired with camellias in the fourth panel from the right, for example, are emblematic of an enduring marriage.
