Letters (Shou zha 手札)
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Currently not on view

Letters (Shou zha 手札),

undated

Mo Shilong 莫是龍, 1539–1587
Chinese
Ming dynasty, 1368–1644
1998-104

Information

Title
Letters (Shou zha 手札)
Dates

undated

Maker
Mo Shilong 莫是龍
Medium
Letter mounted as handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Calligraphy: 18.8 x 319.8 cm. (7 3/8 x 125 7/8 in.) Mount: h. 20.5 cm. (8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-104
Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures
signed
Marks/Labels/Seals
Collector's seal: (1) Xu Bojiao (modern period, HK collector) “Xu shi Bojiao shuhua zhizhang” vertical rectangular yin (beginning of scroll, bottom)
Culture
Chinese
Period
Ming
Type
letters (correspondence), paintings, scroll paintings, handscrolls
Subject
calligraphy (writing), calligraphy (visual work)

–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

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