Excerpt from the Huang ting jing and Poem by Zhao Mengfu
14th century
Artists
Description
Twenty-one lines of the Zhi Dao chapter of the Huang ting jing (Yellow Court Classic), followed by a four-line seven-character poem by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322).
Dimensions
26.4 × 107.6 cm (10 3/8 × 42 3/8 in.)
Provenance
[Kososhi Gallery, Kyoto, (by 2008)], sold; to [James Freeman, Bangkok ( by 2008- 2013)], sold; to Raymond and Priscilla Vickers, New York (2013-2018), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
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