20th century
68.5 x 34.5 cm (26 15/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Reverend Claude L. Pickens Jr. (1900-1985), Collection of Muslims in China; Loan from the Harvard-Yenching Library. 2004/
40th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseTwelve manuscript books; thread-bound, ink on paper with covers, gold designs on blue paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseHandscroll (fragment?); ink on decorateed paper with gold-silver sunago, etc.
16th-17th centuryJapaneseHandscroll; ink on decorated paper
17th centuryJapaneseFragment of a book mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and vermillion marks on paper
12th centuryJapaneseOne of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the fifth and sixth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on yellow-tinted paper decorated with auspicious emblems and scholar's accoutrements (censer set, brushpot, vases with flowering branches, scholar's rocks on wooden stands, etc.) amidst scrolling clouds, the decorations all painted in ink; with signature of the artist reading "Wi-ch'ang"; with three seals of the artist reading "O Se Ch'ang In", "Wi Ch'ang" and "Wi Chi Chae P'il"
19th-20th centuryKoreanHandscroll fragment; silver pigment on dark blue paper with silver guide lines
8th centuryJapaneseThird of three handscrolls; ink on paper; punctuation: light red dots; reciting: dark red
10th-12th centuryJapaneseHandscroll; ink on decorated paper with gold and silver patterns of flower and birds and blue and purple cloud patterns
16th centuryJapaneseInk, colors, and gold on paper
19th centuryPersianThe twentieth of a series of 54 kotobagaki (calligraphic album leaves) mounted in an album with illustrations; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseInk on paper
13th centuryJapanese