A catalogue of Chinese paintings from the Reyes Collection by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 1996).
Trained in Japan, Chen Hengke was a traditional ink painter and art critic. He began his career as a pupil of Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), a painter renowned for his interest in ancient calligraphic styles. The present calligraphy combines the styles of oracle bone scripts of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BC) and the bronze scripts of the Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1050-771 BC).
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 4 on p. 18, p. 10, illus. p. 18 fig. 4, left
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Object information may not accurately reflect the actual contents of the original publication, since our online objects contain current information held in our collections database. Click on 'buy this publication' to purchase printed versions of our online publications, where available, or contact the Jameel Study Centre to arrange access to books on our collections that are now out of print.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum