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Fourteen-Character Couplet in Bronze Script (Korean, 'Kŭm-mun'; Chinese, 'Jinwen')

Fourteen-Character Couplet in Bronze Script (Korean, 'Kŭm-mun'; Chinese, 'Jinwen')

1864 - 1953

O Se-ch'ang (also known by sobriquet ['ho']: Wi-ch'ang)

Korean

One 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"

Chosŏn dynasty to Modern period

Calligraphy