Calligraphy (reverse)

late 1800s

Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

A calligrapher has brushed several Chinese poems about the four seasons on the reverse side, among them "Composing in the Daytime of Summer" by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan (773–819) and "Composing when Spring Begins" by Song scholar Zhang Shi (1133–1180).

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