Currently not on view
Escaping Summer Heat (Tao shu tie 逃暑貼), from Three Letters (San zha 三札) ,
ca. 1094
Mi Fu 米黻, 1052–1107
Chinese
Northern Song dynasty, 960–1127
1998-51 b
Information
Title
Escaping Summer Heat (Tao shu tie 逃暑貼), from Three Letters (San zha 三札)
Dates
ca. 1094
Maker
Medium
Album leaf; ink on paper
Dimensions
Calligraphy: 30.9 x 40.6 cm. (12 1/8 x 16 in.)
Leaf: 37.2 x 59 cm. (14 5/8 x 23 1/4 in.)
Mat: 45.8 x 63.5 cm. (18 1/16 x 25 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-51 b
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed
Marks/Labels/Seals
Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬 (1599-1652)
"Chen Hongshou yin," square intaglio (right, 4th from top)
"Zhang hou fu" 章候父, square intaglio (right, 5th from top)
Ming imperial half seal
"Si yin" 司印, large rectangular relief (right, 4th from bottom)
Culture
Period
Materials
–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.
- 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. 6
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"The checklist of the John B. Elliott Bequest," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 61 (2002): p. 49-99.
, p. 99 - Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 109 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)
