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A column of small characters closing a work.
Also known as: Luokuan, Chinese artist inscription
The inscription closing a Chinese painting or calligraphy, giving the date, the place, the occasion and the artist's name.
Closes a work with its date, occasion and author.
Contexts: History
Dates the work by reign period and sexagenary year rather than by a Western year, which is why a Chinese painting can be dated to within a sixty-year cycle from its inscription alone and needs external evidence to fix which cycle.
Contexts: History
A narrow column of small characters written down one side or corner of a work, ending with one or more red seal impressions beneath it.
The cycle the inscription dates by.
The seals that close the inscription.