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A scholar holding his beard with his left hand
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hubei province › Wuhan › Hankou (place of creation)
- Date
- 1775
- Artist/maker
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Min Zhen (1730 - after 1788) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 55.5 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
page 29.3 x 25.8 cm (height x width)
painting 23.2 x 20.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1964.
- Accession no.
- EA1964.233.v
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 103 on p. 119, illus. p. 120 fig. 103e
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Min Zhen was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi province but lived mostly in Hankou, Hubei. He was orphaned at an early age and it is said that the indifferent quality of his family's ancestral portraits prompted him to apply himself particularly keenly to studying painting. He was also a skilled seal carver.
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