Epitaph for Huangfu Dan (died 604)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a large, vertically oriented, rectangular piece of paper with a grayish-brown color and a rough texture. The paper is divided into sections by creases, with many vertical lines. The surface of the paper is covered with small, intricate, white Chinese characters arranged in rows. The paper has three noticeable tears: a large diagonal tear running from the bottom left to the top right, and a smaller irregularly shaped tear at the bottom. The background behind the paper is a plain light gray color. The title of the work is "Epitaph for Huangfu Dan (died 604)" and the artist is not visually identifiable from the image.