Seal Script · Wang Changling, Crossing the Frontier
A frontier poem in seal script — the characters have to be square and steady to hold down that closing line, 'no Xiongnu horseman shall cross the Yin Mountains'. Twenty-eight characters running vertically, framed as a single piece.
ScriptSeal script
InscriptionTang · Wang Changling, 'On the Frontier'
FormatHanging scroll · framed
Seal scriptTang poemHanging scroll
Plates
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Full viewTwenty-eight characters · vertical
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