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Calligraphy from Seeing Mr Lu Returning to Wu
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (place of creation)
- Date
- 1894 - 1968
- Artist/maker
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Wu Hufan (1894 - 1968) (calligrapher)after Li Panlong (1514 - 1570) (author)
- Material and technique
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 41.5 x 64.3 x 2 cm (length x width x depth)
calligraphy 17.2 x 50.8 cm (height x width)
mount 39.9 x 62.6 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.
- EA1995.290
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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. 90 on p. 68, p. 10, illus. p. 68 fig. 90
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 a poem comprising four lines of seven characters each. It is common for fans painted on one side to bear calligraphy on the other (see cat. No. 60 [EA1995.224]). Wu Hufan was one of the most highly educated traditionl painters in Shanghai and his large private collection of early paintings was well-known.
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