Night-Shining White - Colophon 3 - Mo Shi'an
Think of this as a thousand-year-old comment section on a viral post. This elegant calligraphy is a colophon—a poetic inscription—added to Han Gan's famous Tang Dynasty painting 'Night-Shining White,' which depicts the Emperor's favorite horse. The scholar Mo Shi'an wrote these characters to praise the steed's dragon-like spirit, while the red seals scattered around the edges act like a historical guestbook of proud owners. It transforms a single painting into a collaborative masterpiece that has grown over centuries.
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- Ink on paper
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Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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