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

1769 - 1845

Sin Wi (also known by sobriquet ['ho']: Cha-ha)

Korean

One of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the first and second panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on paper decorated with designs of auspicious emblems and fruiting and blossoming branches painted in ink and pigments and also with designs of scrolling clouds painted (or printed?) in metallic pigment; with signature of the artist reading "Cha-ha"; with one square, red, relief seal of the artist reading "Cha Ha"

Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910