Wooden wedding duck

Artwork · Anonymous · 19th century · sculpture

A carved and painted wooden duck (kirogi) presented by the bridegroom to the bride’s mother as a symbol of fidelity, in place of the live goose of earlier times; wrapped in a pojagi. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 156–157, fig. 85. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.