# Calligraphy

- By: Zhang Jian (1853–1926)
- Date: c. 1900
- Medium: paper, ink, silk
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: diameter 41 mm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of H. de Vries-van der Hoeven, 1989)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-1422-B--88ae2e6ba8c309b13403c7f2dc9fb4ed)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/8de8b34efa76180242b7aac358f17de8.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.’