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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
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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