Four Han Dynasty Stele Inscriptions in clerical script

Object Details

• Artist

  Lu Hui (1851-1920)

• Description

  This set of four hanging scrolls forms a screen. The calligraphy on each hanging scroll is in clerical script and was based on a different individual stele dating from the Han dynasty. Lu Hui identified the stele at the end of each scroll.

• Inscriptions

  Only the last scroll was signed by Lu Hui, but each each scroll bears his seals:

  I. Lu Hui zhi-yin

  II. Lu Hui shi ci hua zuan li zhen

  III. Lianfu

  IV. Wujiang Lu Hui zhang, Lianfu

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Calligraphy

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• Date

  1910s

• Name

  Lu, Hui

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Clerical script, Modern period (1912 - present)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)