From card [for all 12 paintings, E77052-0 through E77052-11]: "12 Glue-color folk paintings on paper, used for room decoration or storeroom door amulets. - Chang-su Houchins. See pp. 468-9 in "The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Korean Collections in the U.S. National Museum" by Walter Hough in USNM AR 1891. All 12 paintings are described there."
From card [for E77052-4], painting original # 5: "Glue color folk painting on paper, of a vase filled with flowers, together with fruits (hwabun-do). Used for room decoration. 57 x 67.5 cm. Smithsonian Photographic Services negative number 89-13612, which is available as a black and white image, color slide, or color transparency under this same negative number."
"Late 19th century. Color on paper. The vase on a stand is filled with a stylized bouquet of oversized wild roses, chrysanthemums, lotuses and two peaches. The vase is decorated with Taoist devices of change, movement, and energy (Legeza,1987: 21-24). On the flower at the right side of the vase, there is a citron (Citrus derumana) or yuja with numerous seeds. Yuja, the Korean word for this citron, is a fertility symbol due to its homonym, yuja, having children. To the left of the vase is pulloch'o, fungus symbolic of eternity. This genre of painting is hung in women's quarters. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 469 "MBM 'Miguk bangmul-gwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae' or The Korean Relics in the United States", 1989: 50" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 121]
