Ting t' ieh

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Weng Fanggang (1733-1818)

  Wu Rongguang 吳榮光 (1773-1843)

• Description

  Album of 19 double-leaves; ink on paper, and rubbings on paper.

  Cover: brocade on wood cover; and a blue silk bag.

  The album is comprised of a label, a frontispiece, five separate "t' ieh", each followed by a colophon, and colophons at the end .

  Colophons by Weng Fang-kang, 1733-1818 and Wu Jung-kuang, 1733-1843.

• Provenance

  To 1987

  Ms. Ch’iung-fang Lin, Rochester, New York. [1]

  From 1987

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Ms. Ch’iung-fang Lin, Rochester, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See invoice dated May 28, 1987, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ch'iung-fang Lin

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Calligraphy

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• Name

  Ch'iung-fang, Lin

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)