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Fourteen-Character Couplet in Running Script  (Korean, 'Haeng-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Xingshu')

Fourteen-Character Couplet in Running Script (Korean, 'Haeng-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Xingshu')

1835 - 1919

Kim Sŏng-kŭn (also known by sobriquet ['ho']: Hae-sa)

Korean

One of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the seventh and eighth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on lavendar- and orange-tinted papers decorated with seven dragon-and pearl roundels interspersed with scrolling clouds on the right panel and with designs of flying bats and scrolling clouds on the left panel, the decorations all painted in ink; with signature of the artist reading "Hae-sa"; with one square, red, intaglio seal of the artist reading "Kim Sŏng Kŭn In"

Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910

Calligraphy