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Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy
- loan
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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).
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1968
- Artist/maker
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Chuang Shang-Yen (1899 - 1980) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
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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
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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
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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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