A Tale of Two Scrolls: Wagtail on a Rock and Wagtail and Chrysanthemums from the Frank S. Bayley Collection
Tanya Uyeda | SAM Senior Conservator of East Asian Paintings
Tanya Uyeda will kick off this season of Up Close with Conservators by sharing research being undertaken to inform future conservation treatments for SAM’s collection of Korean paintings.
Scroll mountings not only beautifully display and physically protect artworks, they contain important information related to history, provenance, and connoisseurship. Wagtail on a Rock and Wagtail and Chrysanthemums are a pair of 17th century ink paintings on view at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Meot: Korean Art from the Frank Bayley Collection. Acquired as a pair, these two Korean paintings are mounted in two different Japanese-style mountings, indicating that they took divergent paths through Japan before arriving at SAM.
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Image: Wagtail on a Rock, Cho Sok, Korean, 1595 - 1668 Korean, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), 17th century Hanging scroll, Ink on paper Overall: 54 x 22 in. (137.2 x 55.9 cm) Image: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm) Gift of Frank S. Bayley III in honor of the reopening of the Seattle Asian Art Museum, 2021.11.2, photo: Jueqian Fang.
Wagtail and Chrysanthemum, Cho Sok, Korean, 1595 - 1668
Korean, 17th century Hanging scroll; Ink on paper Overall: 54 x 20 3/4 in. (137.2 x 52.7 cm) Image: 19 x 15 1/2 in. (48.3 x 39.4 cm) Gift of Frank S. Bayley III in honor of the reopening of the Seattle Asian Art Museum, 2021.11.3, photo: Jueqian Fang.