Pair of hanging scrolls with poetry couplet in oracle-bone script

Object Details

• Artist

  Dong Zuobin (1895-1963)

• Provenance

  From mid-1950s to 2001

  Private collection, Washington DC, acquired in the mid-1950s in Taipei. [1]

  From 2001

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of anonymous donor, Washington DC [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The painting was acquired in the mid-1950s while the donor was working in the American Embassy [Taipei]. According to notes from Joseph Chang dated June 12, 2001, the painting was created either for the donor or for his family members by Dong Zubin. See also Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See Acquisition Consideration Form, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Anonymous

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Anonymous gift in honor of Kent H. and Scott N. Redford

• Type

  Calligraphy

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1960s

• Name

  Redford, Ralph Hubbard

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Couplet, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Poetry, Modern period (1912 - present), Oracle-bone script

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)