2021
A thin sheet of light brownish paper with twelve vertical columns of unpunctuated cursive Chinese script in black ink. The leftmost column begins on the bottom third of the page and is written in smaller characters, below which is a red intaglio seal.
H. 40 × W. 27.3 cm (15 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.)
Michael Cherney, Beijing (2021), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021.
24th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseBook form; thread-bound, sumi on decorated paper with gold sunago.
17th centuryJapaneseOne of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the first and second panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on paper decorated with designs of auspicious emblems and fruiting and blossoming branches painted in ink and pigments and also with designs of scrolling clouds painted (or printed?) in metallic pigment; with signature of the artist reading "Cha-ha"; with one square, red, relief seal of the artist reading "Cha Ha"
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17th-18th centuryJapaneseThe thirtieth of a series of 54 kotobagaki (calligraphic album leaves) mounted in an album with illustrations; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseChinese ink on paper
21st centuryAmericanAlbum leaf; ink and color on silk
ChineseHanging scroll; ink on paper, with signature reading "Heihachirō sho"
20th centuryJapaneseOne of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the fifth and sixth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on yellow-tinted paper decorated with auspicious emblems and scholar's accoutrements (censer set, brushpot, vases with flowering branches, scholar's rocks on wooden stands, etc.) amidst scrolling clouds, the decorations all painted in ink; with signature of the artist reading "Wi-ch'ang"; with three seals of the artist reading "O Se Ch'ang In", "Wi Ch'ang" and "Wi Chi Chae P'il"
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Chinese