Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal

Date

918–1392

Medium

bronze

Culture

Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)

Department

Korean Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

A large quantity of bronze seals were excavated from tombs of the Goryeo dynasty. This bronze seal appears to have been designed for stamping the sealed envelopes of letters. However, the remains of red cinnabar seal paste is not very visible; it may not have been used much before it was buried in the tomb. 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.

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