Fan with Painted Decoration of Bronzes, Paintings, and Texts on One Side and Fragments of Texts on the Other

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1985.892
People: Li Zhuxi 李竹溪, Chinese (dates unknown)
Title: Fan with Painted Decoration of Bronzes, Paintings, and Texts on One Side and Fragments of Texts on the Other
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting, fan
Date: 1915
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/211336

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Folding fan on baitong (nickel brass) frame; ink and color on silk; signed 'Yangzhu Shanren' on one side and 'Li Zhuxi' on the other; inscribed transciption of "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering" on the frame

Dimensions

36 x 66 cm (14 3/16 x 26 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: 'Yang Zhushanren' and 'Li Zhuqi'

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, purchased from dealer Mathias Komor, November 1967; bequest to Harvard Art Museum

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
Accession Year: 1985
Object Number: 1985.892
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Judith Zeitlin and Lydia H. Liu, Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan, cover illustration
Nancy Berliner, The 'Eight Brokens': Chinese Trompe-l'oeil Painting, Orientations (February 1992), vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 61-70

Exhibition History

Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/15/1995 - 10/08/1995
Forging the New: East Asian Painting in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2005 - 10/16/2005
China in Twelve Artworks, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

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1985.892: Fan with Painted Decoration of Bronzes, Paintings, and Texts on One Side and Fragments of Texts on the Other