The stamp on this FDC from South Korea is from a set of six that together depict a set of folding silk screens that display a gathering at the royal palace to celebrate the marriage of King Heonjeong to his second wife Queen Hyojeong, in 1844.
It was common practice at the time for officials to commission art such as this to record events that occurred. The actual screens are a little over a meter high and under half a meter wide. There are eight of them with the first and last containing text only. You can see the folding screens in the postmark. And because the single stamp was not enough for international postage the additional postage label to the left was required.
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