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Calligraphy: "Happiness"

Empress Dowager Cixi

18th–19th century

Calligraphy: "Happiness" by Empress Dowager Cixi

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on gold-flecked paper

Dimensions

45 x 24 1/2 in. (114.3 x 62.2 cm)

Classification

Calligraphy

Culture & Period

China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier, 1952

Accession Number

52.177.9

Tags

Calligraphy

About the Artist

Empress Dowager Cixi · 18351908

Chinese, 1835–1908

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