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Calligraphy written in lishu clerical script
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Description
Lishu is a Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) script. The present calligraphy was copied from the famous Wu Rong stele at Ji’nan in Shandong province, carved in the Eastern Han (15 BC-AD 220) dynasty. The bird and flower painting by Tang Yun (1910-1993) is in traditional decorative style, and was probably mounted together with the calligraphy not long after it was completed.
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1946
- Artist/maker
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Tang Yun (1910 - 1993) (artist)Huang Baoyue (1880 - 1968) (calligrapher)
- Associated people
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Wu Rong (probably AD 131 - 167) (named on object)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper; calligraphy in ink on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 106 x 47.3 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
mount 102.6 x 43.9 cm sight size (height x width)
calligraphy 34.7 x 37.4 cm (height x width)
painting 35.5 x 37.4 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.293
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Further reading
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. 28 on p. 32, pp. 53 & 64, illus. p. 32 fig. 28
Glossary
lishu
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lishu
Qin Dynasty clerical script.
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
The Past in the Present: Script and Archaism in Modern Chinese Art
(from 6th Oct 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The calligraphy is in lishu (clerical script) form and is a transcription of part of the famous Wu Rong stele at Ji'nan in Shandong province, carved in the Han (206 BC-221 AD) dynasty. The bird is painted in traditional decorative style, and was probably mounted together with the calligraphy not long after it was completed.
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