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Classic of Spiritual Flight

Zhong Shaojing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A rectangular piece of aged paper with a light brown color and darker brown spots. The paper contains 24 lines of black handwritten Chinese characters. The characters are written in a vertical column down the center of the paper. The characters are aligned to the right. There is a small red handwritten mark at the bottom right of the paper. The paper has a white background around it. The artwork's title is "Classic of Spiritual Flight" and it is by Zhong Shaojing.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 738
Medium
Album of nine leaves; ink on paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
298 × 625 px
Public Domain
Yes
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