1985.892: Fan with Painted Decoration of Bronzes, Paintings, and Texts on One Side and Fragments of Texts on the Other
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.892
- People
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Li Zhuxi 李竹溪, Chinese (dates unknown)
- Title
- Fan with Painted Decoration of Bronzes, Paintings, and Texts on One Side and Fragments of Texts on the Other
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting, fan
- Date
- 1915
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/211336
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Folding fan on baitong (nickel brass) frame; ink and color on silk; signed 'Yangzhu Shanren' on one side and 'Li Zhuxi' on the other; inscribed transciption of "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering" on the frame
- Dimensions
- 36 x 66 cm (14 3/16 x 26 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: 'Yang Zhushanren' and 'Li Zhuqi'
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, purchased from dealer Mathias Komor, November 1967; bequest to Harvard Art Museum
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.892
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Judith Zeitlin and Lydia H. Liu, Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan, cover illustration
- Nancy Berliner, The 'Eight Brokens': Chinese Trompe-l'oeil Painting, Orientations (February 1992), vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 61-70
Exhibition History
- Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/15/1995 - 10/08/1995
- Forging the New: East Asian Painting in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2005 - 10/16/2005
- China in Twelve Artworks, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016
Verification Level
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