Altar High Chair (Kyo-Yi)
- Date
- 1800s
- Medium
- pine nut wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 128.4 x 52 cm (50 9/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Korea
- Culture
- Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession
- 1999.120.3
- Credit line
- Gift of The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, M.D. in memory of Robert P. Bergman
The belief in two types of souls, the spiritual and the corporeal, embodied the core concept of ancestral worship in traditional China and Korea. While the corporeal soul is believed to reside in the tomb, the spiritual soul, in the spirit house, guards his or her descendants.