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A large quantity of bronze seals were excavated from tombs of the Goryeo dynasty. This bronze seal appears to have been used for stamping the sealed envelopes of letters. The lion-shaped ornament serves as the handle of the seal. While it is much corroded, the face and tail of the seated lion gazing upward are delicately expressed. Beneath the face of the lion is a hole through which a string can be threaded.
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- Title: Seal
- Date Created: 918–1392
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.); Overall: 2.4 cm (15/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Yamanaka and Company, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.1043
- Medium: bronze
- Original Title: 청동인장 (靑銅裝飾)
- Fun Fact: A large quantity of bronze seals excavated from tombs of the Goryeo dynasty is closely related to the development of metallurgy in 13th-century Korea that allowed the transition from wood type to movable metal type printing.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392)
- Credit Line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Collection: Korean Art
- Accession Number: 1917.1043
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