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Couplet on Achievements and Virtues,
1916
Li Ruiqing 李瑞清, 1867–1920
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
1998-65 a-b
Information
Title
Couplet on Achievements and Virtues
Dates
1916
Maker
Medium
Pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper
Dimensions
Calligraphy (each): 148.5 x 39.8 cm. (58 7/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
Mount (each): 181.5 x 46.2 cm. (71 7/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-65 a-b
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed "Bingchen shi yue shuo yu zhong deng xia, Qingdaoren" 丙辰十月朔雨中鐙下清道人
Inscription
Inscribed: "Ji Xia Cheng bei zi yi Zhongyue xiansheng Zheng Wengong xia bei bifa shu zhi" 集夏承碑字以中岳先生鄭文公下碑筆法書之
(Gathered from the Xia Cheng bei and using the brush manner of teacher Zhongyue's Zheng Wengong xia bei)
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist, "Amei" 阿梅, tall rectangular relief, scroll b, top
Artist, "Qingdaoren" 清道人, square relief, scroll b, middle
Artist, "Huanglong yan zhai" 黃龍硯齋, square intaglio, scroll b, lower
Artist, "Shizhengshi" 師鄭室, square relief, scroll a
On his seals see:
Zhongguo shuhuajia yin jian kuan zhi 中國書畫家印鑑款識 (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1987), pp. 378–79.
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.
