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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
Museum record:
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