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A Page from the Jie Zi Yuan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with Chinese calligraphy. The book's pages are off-white and aged, with darker spots and stains. A black border surrounds each page. The right page contains four large black Chinese characters, vertically aligned. The left page contains a column of smaller black Chinese characters. A small red seal or stamp with Chinese characters is in the bottom-left corner of the left page. The book is titled "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 × 492 px
Museum record:
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