Poem on Climbing the Tower in clerical script

Object Details

• Artist

  Yang Fa (1696-after 1762)

• Provenance

  Estate of Alice Boney. [1]

  From 1992

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased at auction, “Fine Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy,” Christie’s, New York, June 2, 1992, lot no. 139, “Clerical Script Calligraphy”. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The scroll was the property of the Estate of Alice Boney (Alice Boney died in 1988), when Freer Gallery of Art purchased it from Christie’s, New York. See Christie’s auction catalog, “Fine Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy,” Christie’s, New York, June 2, 1992, lot no. 139, “Clerical Script Calligraphy”.

  [2] See note 1. For further details see object file, Collections Management Office. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Estate of Alice Boney (1901-1988)

  Christie's (New York)

• Origin

  Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Calligraphy

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1700s, 1790s

• Name

  Boney, Alice, Christie's, New York

• Place

  Jiangsu province, China, Nanjing

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Clerical script, Poetry

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)