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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.120
People
Sekishitsu Zenkyū (dates uknown)
Title
Excerpt from the Huang ting jing and Poem by Zhao Mengfu
Classification
Calligraphy
Work Type
calligraphy, hanging scroll
Date
14th century
Period
Kamakura period, Late or Nambokuchō
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/360184

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2740, Buddhist Art, The Efflorescence of East Asian and Buddhist Art
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Calligraphy mounted as a hanging scroll, ink on paper
Dimensions
26.4 × 107.6 cm (10 3/8 × 42 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[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.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Raymond W. Vickers (Class of 1965; H.L.S. 1968) and Priscilla Vickers
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.120
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

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).

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2740 Buddhist II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/04/2023 - 06/03/2024

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