Ritual Table
Kim Yik-Yung
Asian Art
MEDIUM
Glazed porcelain
DATES
1997
DIMENSIONS
14 15/16 × 7 7/8 × 3 in. (38.0 × 20.0 × 7.6 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2021.18.11
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Carroll Family Collection
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Low table made from three interlocking pieces of white, clear-glazed porcelain. The table mimicks the low wood stands once used in Korean daily life and particularly in ancestral and Buddhist rituals to present offerings of food before an altar. Piece consists of a broad, flat table top of slightly pocked porcelain with one rectangular notch in one side; a leg of complex rectilinear form that fits into the notch and supports the top from below while also protruding along one side; and another leg that fits at the opposite corner, again in complex rectilinear form.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Kim Yik-Yung (Korean, born 1935). Ritual Table, 1997. Glazed porcelain, 14 15/16 × 7 7/8 × 3 in. (38.0 × 20.0 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Carroll Family Collection, 2021.18.11 (Photo: , CUR.2021.18.11.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2021.18.11.jpg.
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