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Calligraphy in Cursive Script
(China )
Shen Zengzhi was an administrator, historian, poet, and calligrapher with a highly individual style. His poem reads:
I think of flower petals falling into the clear water of the river,
Lingering there in the east as if there was all the time in the world.
The river becomes excited.
At nightfall the ducks return.
There's a ferryman's boat in the vast landscape,
As the sun descends behind autumn hills.
Far away, in the dusk, boats are sailing.
I return home, relaxed and content.
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Provenance
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Sale, Christie's, New York, December 2, 1992, lot 81; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by purchase.
Geographies
China (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 51 3/4 x W: 26 in. (131.5 x 66 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1992
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.182