Proverb in running-standard script
Object Details
- Provenance
- To 1998
- Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (born 1929), New York City, to 1998
- From 1998
- Freer Gallery of Art, given by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in 1998 [1]
- Notes:
- [1]
- All Chinese calligraphy in the gift were published in Mr. Ellsworth's Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1800-1950, vol. 3 (New York: Random House, 1986) (according to Curatorial Note 2, Joseph Chang, May 19, 1998, in the object record).
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (1929-2014)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1879
- Period
- Qing dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1998.150
- Calligrapher
- Deng Chengxiu (1841-1892)
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Calligraphy
- Medium
- Horizontal hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 30.5 x 115.3 cm (12 x 45 3/8 in)
- Origin
- China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- China
- couplet
- running-standard script
- Chinese Art
- Robert Hatfield Ellsworth collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1998.150
