Ming calligrapher's 'fan' on display at NPM

The reproduction was found by a leading Chinese painting rater hanging on the wall of a restroom at the Grand Hotel in Yuanshan last week. It is so well reproduced that Xue Xiang, associate professor of archaeological fine art at the Nanjing Institute of Fine Art, concluded the replica was genuine.

That triggered the management of the Grand Hotel to take stock of all the Chinese paintings it owns. Their worth has been estimated at well over NT$200 million (US$6 million).

The genuine “Fans of Poems,” along with 36 other works of Wang Chong's, are kept at the National Palace Museum in suburban Taipei.

Another of the calligraphic works, “Five Memories,” was on display together with “Fan of Poems.”

Like “Five Memories,” the “Fan of Poems” has five five-character verses that Wang Chong (1494-1533) had written. Each poem has eight lines.

The five poems are written on a fan 17.8 by 29.3 centimeters.

The two works of the Ming calligrapher are on display at Exhibition Room 206 on the second floor of the West Annex of the National Palace Museum.

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