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Calligraphy
Also titled Kalligrafie
Zhang Jian (1853–1926)
c. 1900
- Medium
- paper, ink, silk
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- diameter 41 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of H. de Vries-van der Hoeven, 1989)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This pair of calligraphy scrolls is a gift from a scholar to his scholar friend to hang in the study. The texts read in translation: ‘The things that are clean easily become dusty, the things that are white easily become dirty’ and (when making pottery) ‘when it is hard, it is easy to break, when it is soft it is easy to shape.’
