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An eight panel folding screen supporting calligraphy of an interpretation of the Eight Beatitudes (Matthew 5) in Chinese. The artist, Rev. Eun-deok Choi, has signed the work with his sobriquet, 義山 (의산; Righteous Mountain). The artist, Rev. Choi, was an acquaintance of the former President of Methodist Theological University in Seoul, Bong-bae Park, and may have originally gifted the work to him. Park, in turn, was a friend and colleague of former Emory University President and US Ambassador to Korea, James T. Laney, and possibly gifted the work to him.

An embroidered depiction of the original building of the Chongkyo Methodist Church on silk. Chongkyo Methodist Church was built and founded by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Seoul, Korea, in the early 1900s and was part of the Seoul Circuit of the Korea Conference. The piece shows the original church building with a selection of Korean figures, men and women, approaching or walking by the church. A dedication is embroidered across the top of the work.

This calligraphy plays on the sounds of Chinese to evoke the name of God (Yahweh) and describe him (Jesus Christ) as the most "precious stone," the cornerstone.

An inkstone engraved on five sides with various scenes of a crowd gathered in the gardens of a large pavilion. The inverse of the stone is engraved with the text of the Lanting Xu (兰亭集序; 난정집서), a famous piece of Chinese calligraphy considered to have been written by the famous calligrapher, Wang Xizhi (王羲之; 왕희지), during the Jin dynasty (266-420 BCE). On the front of the stone, a lone scholar, possibly Wang Xizhi, sits at a desk overlooking a pond which makes up the ink well and plain.

A large format calligraphy brush, likely made with goat hair with a bamboo handle. This brush is in the center of the first image.

A large format calligraphy brush, likely made with goat hair with either a bone or horn handle. The handle is engraved with the characters, [insert here], which roughly translate to "[insert translation]." This brush is on the left of the first image.

A large format calligraphy brush, likely made with goat hair with a wooden handle. This brush is on the right in the first image.