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Egyptian rubbing with calligraphic inscription
Image Not Available for Egyptian rubbing with calligraphic inscription

Egyptian rubbing with calligraphic inscription

Duan Fang (1861–1911)
1906
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 107 x 26.4 cm (42 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Image: 23.2 x 23.5 cm (9 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit LineKeith McLeod Fund
Accession number2013.1657
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsRubbings
ProvenanceProbably kept by the artist until his death [see note]. 1938, acquired in Beijing by Li Han-Bok (b. 1897 – d. 1943), Korea. Private collection, Connecticut. 2013, anonymous dealer; September 16, 2013, anonymous sale (consigned by a dealer), Bonham’s, New York, lot 8136, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 20, 2013)

NOTE: Duan Fang, a Manchurian official, traveled to Egypt in the summer of 1906, presumably the year in which he made this rubbing. After his death in 1911 the works of art in his collection were dispersed.