Still life with bronze vessels and flowering plants. Artist: Attributed to Jang Seung-eop (pen name: Owon) (Korean, 1843-1897). Culture: Korea. Dimensions: Overall: 77 in. × 14 ft. 2 in. (195.6 × 431.8 cm). Date: 1894.In the nineteenth century, still-life paintings of precious vessels with flowering plants and/or fruits emerged as a distinct and popular genre (Korean: gimyeong jeoljido). The bronzes in this screen are more stylized or exaggerated versions of late Qing-period (1644-1911) Chinese examples, which were known in Korea from imported collectibles or their representation in Chinese paintings, prints, or lithographs. The left-most panel bears the signature and seal of Jang Seung-eop, the leading court artist of the time. Since students and others signed for the illiterate master, some works attributed to Jang may in fact be collaborations or by his immediate followers. Regardless of authorship, this work is a rare and fine example of turn-of-the-twentieth-century still-life p