Motifs
Motif · Plants
Gourd
표주박 (호로)葫蘆pyojubak (horo)
A double gourd, a conventional sign of abundance, on court wrappers.
- Wishes for
- Abundance and many descendants, by its many seeds
On a palace 패물보 with 원수 and bats.
History & tradition
East Asian auspicious imagery; early 20th-century court cloth
The gourd appears with bats and a 壽 roundel on Prince Yeong's consort's jewellery wrapper, and is one of the Eight Immortals' treasures printed on a Huh-collection cloth. The reading of many descendants is a general East Asian convention; neither source states it.
Researched with low confidence.
Sources for this entry
봉황鳳凰bonghwang