Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, purchased from the estate of Rhode Island Senator Theodore Francis Green, July 1968; bequest to Harvard Art Museum
Section of a wall painting; polychromy on unfired clay
7th centuryChineseHanging scroll; ink on paper; with signature reading Yu Peng xie; with inscribed cyclical-year designation reading dinghai (i.e., 2007); with square, red, intaglio seal reading Yu Peng
21st centuryChineseHandscroll; ink and color on silk
ChineseSection of a handscroll mounted as an album leaf; ink and light color on paper
16th-17th centuryChineseFragment of a wall painting; pigments on gesso ground over plastered clay. From the north wall of Mogao Cave 321 at Dunhuang, Gansu province.
ChineseAlbum leaf; ink and color on paper
19th-20th centuryChineseHanging scroll; ink and colors on cotton paper; with signature of the artist reading "Liu Guosong"; with artist's square red intaglio seal reading "Liu Guo Song"
20th centuryChineseFolding fan painting mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper
19th centuryChineseHanging scroll; ink on paper
17th-18th centuryChineseHandscroll; ink and colors on paper; with signature reading "Changzhou Wen Zhengming", and with two seals of the artist reading "Zheng" and "Ming"
16th centuryChineseOne leaf from an album of eleven (originally twelve) leaves; ink and color on paper; with signature of the artist reading 'Zhang Xiong'
19th centuryChineseOne of four paintings mounted as a handscroll; ink on paper
15th centuryChinese