2002.9.2.B: Fourteen-Character Couplet in Running Script (Korean, 'Haeng-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Xingshu')
Calligraphy
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.9.2.B
- People
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Yun Yong-ku (also known by sobriquet ['ho']: Sŏk-ch'on), Korean (1852 - 1939)
- Title
- Fourteen-Character Couplet in Running Script (Korean, 'Haeng-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Xingshu')
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Work Type
- screen, calligraphy
- Date
- late 19th-first third 20th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
- Period
- Chosŏn dynasty to Modern period
- Culture
- Korean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/147155
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- One of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the third and fourth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on paper decorated with seven dragon-and-pearl roundels interspersed with designs of flying bats and scrolling clouds, the decorations all painted in ink; with signature reading "Sŏk-ch'on Cho-su"; with two seals of the artist reading "Yun Yong Ku In" and "Yŏk Su Hŏn"
- Dimensions
- each couplet: 119.8 x 26.4 cm (47 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- #112
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Anonymous Fund and David Berg, Esq., Bequest Fund
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- 2002.9.2.B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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