Information
- Title
- Four-character Poem
- Object Number
- y1984-51 b
- Medium
- Folding fan mounted as album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper
- Dates
- 1460 – 1527
- Dimensions
- Painting: 25 x 53.7 cm. (9 13/16 x 21 1/8 in.) Leaf (closed): 59.5 x 31.3 cm. (23 7/16 x 12 5/16 in.) Mat: 38.2 x 67 cm. (15 1/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Elliott
- Culture
- Chinese
- Period
- Ming dynasty
- Place made
- Asia, China
- Signatures
- signed: Shen Zhou
- Inscriptions
- Inscription/calligraphic text: Shui ci ren jia si rang xi Cen ci (??) zhu shu luo ju yuan (*?) weng yuan zuo bu chu hu ri nian nei kan (?) (*?) zheng ti.
- Marks/Labels/Seals
- Seals: 3. small square yang seal after Shen Zhou's signature ; small square yang seal in lower right corner of fan, illegible in photo; small square yang seal lower left corner of fan (4 characters): .
- Wen C. Fong, Images of the mind: selections from the Edward L. Elliott family and John B. Elliott collections of Chinese calligraphy and painting at the Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1984)., cat. no. 14
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52., p. 48
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