Highlights
Painting of Lotus Flower and the Sun and Moon
- Nationality/Period
Goguryeo Kingdom
- Materials
Paper
- Category
Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - mural painting - copy
- Dimensions
227.0×213.0cm
- Accession Number
K 74
This is a replica of the mural made on the ceiling and the ceiling support in the burial chamber of the Ssangyeongchong Tomb. The sun and the moon are painted on the bottom of the eastern and western side of the ceiling support. In the reddish circle representing the sun, there is a three-legged crow with a peacock crest, while in the circle representing the moon, there is an image of a toad painted. Flames dart out from the mouth of the toad, whose head is turned to the left. No similar murals dating back to the Goguryeo Kingdom have ever been found.