Zhang JianChinese, 1853–1926Calligraphy
May one see it?
Unknown
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
This pair of calligraphy scrolls is a gift from a scholar to his scholar friend to hang in the study. The texts read in translation: ‘The things that are clean easily become dusty, the things that are white easily become dirty’ and (when making pottery) ‘when it is hard, it is easy to break, when it is soft it is easy to shape.’
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- AK-MAK-1422-B
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
