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A large quantity of bronze seals were excavated from tombs of the Goryeo dynasty. This seal bears two inscribed characters: 王 (king) and the other illegible. The red cinnabar paste is still visible, indicating it must have been used for signing various documents while its owner was alive.
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- Title: Seal
- Date Created: 1100s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); Bottom: 1.3 x 1.3 cm (1/2 x 1/2 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/1917.1041
- Medium: bronze
- Original Title: 청동 인장 (靑銅印章)
- 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: 1917.1041
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