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Fourteen-Character Couplet in Clerical Script (Korean, 'Ye-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Lishu')

Fourteen-Character Couplet in Clerical Script (Korean, 'Ye-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Lishu')

1814 - 1877

Sŏ Sŭng-po (also known by sobriquet ['ho']: Kyu-jŏng)

Korean

One of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the ninth and tenth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on medium-brown-tinted paper; with signature of the artist reading "Kyu-jŏng"; with three seals of the artist reading "Sŏ Sŭng Po In", "Kyu Jŏng", and "Chŏng Chŏng"

Chosŏn dynasty to Modern period

Calligraphy