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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.9.4.A
People
Kim Sŏng-kŭn (also known by sobriquet ['ho']: Hae-sa), Korean (1835 - 1919)
Title
Fourteen-Character Couplet in Running Script (Korean, 'Haeng-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Xingshu')
Classification
Calligraphy
Work Type
calligraphy, screen
Date
late 19th-early 20th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
Period
Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
Culture
Korean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/147221

Physical Descriptions

Medium
One of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the seventh and eighth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on lavendar- and orange-tinted papers decorated with seven dragon-and pearl roundels interspersed with scrolling clouds on the right panel and with designs of flying bats and scrolling clouds on the left panel, the decorations all painted in ink; with signature of the artist reading "Hae-sa"; with one square, red, intaglio seal of the artist reading "Kim Sŏng Kŭn In"
Dimensions
each couplet: 119.8 x 26.4 cm (47 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
#112

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Anonymous Fund and David Berg, Esq., Bequest Fund
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.9.4.A
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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