"Wu Ban" stele, detail of back face
"Wu Ban" stele, detail of back face

Currently not on view

"Wu Ban" stele, detail of back face,

stone: 25–220 CE; rubbing: before 1907

Chinese
2002-307.46

Information

Title
"Wu Ban" stele, detail of back face
Dates

stone: 25–220 CE; rubbing: before 1907

Medium
Rubbing; ink on paper
Dimensions
114 x 64 cm. (44 7/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Far Eastern Seminar Collection
Object Number
2002-307.46
Place Made

Asia, China, Shandong

Culture
Chinese
Type
rubbings
Subject
calligraphy (writing), calligraphy (visual work)

1940s–2002 Far Eastern Seminar Collection, Marquand Library, by transfer to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002.
Note: reportedly a gift of Alan Priest (1898-1969) to Princeton University when Professor George Rowley (1893-1962) was working on an unfinished manuscript on Chinese figure style.

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