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A Page from the Jie Zi Yuan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with two pages. The left page contains dense black Chinese calligraphy in a small font, and a square seal or stamp in the bottom left corner. The right page contains three large Chinese characters written in black ink. The pages are off-white with dark borders around the edges of each page, and have darker splotches throughout. The book has a white background. The title of the work is "A Page from the Jie Zi Yuan" and the artist is unknown.

Artwork Details

Date
first edition printed in 1679
Medium
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
600 × 486 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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