Wishing House Shrine
Asian Art
MEDIUM
Wood, polychrome
DATES
17th century
DYNASTY
Joseon dynasty
DIMENSIONS
44 7/8 × 13 × 12 in. (114 × 33 × 30.5 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2021.17.5
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Carroll Family Collection
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Vertical wood box with pierced, relief-carved panels on the front and sides, standing on a miniature railed platform with cornice and four removable phoenix-headed finials at the top. Front carved panel depicts peonies. Side panels consist of a column of chrysanthemums. Back panel is not carved but painted with peonies in a pattern that mimicks the front. The entire box is painted in bright colors with a fish-scale motif (perhaps depicting roof tiles?) on the cornice.
Object is a Wishing House Shrine (Soh Wan Ham). It is used to deposit written offerings or prayers in a Buddhist temple.The prayers were presumably dropped through an opening in the top, but the strips of paper would have been visible through the openings in the carved front and side panels.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Wishing House Shrine, 17th century. Wood, polychrome, 44 7/8 × 13 × 12 in. (114 × 33 × 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Carroll Family Collection, 2021.17.5 (Photo: Image courtesy of The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Professor Roberta L. Carroll, M.D., CUR.TL2020.25.8.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.TL2020.25.8.jpg. Image courtesy of The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Professor Roberta L. Carroll, M.D., 2020
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