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A scholar writing on a fan

  • Details

    Associated place
    Hankou (place of creation)
    Date
    1775
    Artist/maker
    Min Zhen (1730 - after 1788) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 55.5 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
    page 29 x 26 cm (height x width)
    painting 23 x 20.4 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1964.
    Accession no.
    EA1964.233.xii
  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 103 on p. 119, illus. p. 121 fig. 103l

Location

    • currently in research collection

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  • Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    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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