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

1870–1935

Medium: 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"
Dimensions: each couplet: H. 119.8 x W. 26.4 cm (47 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Genre: Calligraphy
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US