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Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy

  • loan
  • Description

    Zhuang Yan was Curator of Painting at the Palace Museum, Taizhong. The calligraphy examples in this album were written for the book A Short History of Chinese Art. The pages here show clerical script (lishu) and a form of standard script (kaishu).

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    1968
    Artist/maker
    Chuang Shang-Yen (1899 - 1980) (calligrapher)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper
    Dimensions
    album 38.7 x 21.5 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
    page 38.7 x 21.5 cm (height x width)
    pages 26 (count)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    5
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1109.7
  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 1 on p. 47, illus. p. 47

Glossary

lishu

  • lishu

    Qin Dynasty clerical script.

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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