{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"37704"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Acquired through the Museum Associates Purchase Fund"},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"62.3255 a"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"One of a triptych. Wang Xizhi (Wang Hsi-chih, 321-379), China's most famous calligrapher, is the subject of this landscape.  He sits next to a rock watching several geese swimming in a man-made pond. A stream extends from the foreground to the background where there is a small bamboo grove. Elegant buildings are hidden behind trees and rocks in the upper middle ground. Broad washes of ink to depict rocks and to suggest space in the distant background are characteristic of the Zhe school painters in 15th-16th century China. Wang is known to have compared the curved necks of the geese to calligraphic strokes.____________________Ellen Avril, Curator of Asian Art, identifies the triptych of scrolls as JAPANESE.  Spring 2018"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Hanging scroll: ink on silk"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":"62.3255_a_z0001_035"},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"The Calligrapher Wang Xizhi Watching Geese"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Paintings"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker / Culture","value":"Unidentified artist"},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/70872/full"},"culture":{"label":"Culture","value":"Japan"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"195297"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Image: 40 5/8 × 20 7/8 inches (103.2 × 53 cm);Overall: 82 × 29 inches (208.3 × 73.7 cm)"}}]}