I Found a Better Name
I took a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late September because I thought there was an exhibit on Chinese laquer ware that was going to close soon.
I had the year wrong, it's opening and closing in 2017. Whoops.
Instead, I took a stroll through the Chinese collection, on the lookout for drinking cups I could replicate, and took a ton of photos for my friends with research interests. There was a lot of debate about what exactly this woman
is holding happening in the SCA China facebook group, and I happened to be walking past the statue at the time so I took some video and helped answer the question.
I also took a look at the scrolls section since I have friends who do beautiful calligraphy and are always looking for ideas.
I came across this beautiful scroll:
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uxbbgS6eThJ6S4P3gmpf-EuSFCkBflgJ6Vh_H7ukcV3ZymTYYJ2r8gbW_CUIh3L8hITjVaP6eBN4TnAFOkyCnPMCsnjLAJdJDI6BZz06mAHuEsMIVaRrh_gGxz8TfvIVrXsq1AAg=s0-d)
Which is titled, politely, "Drinking and composing poetry." Except it isn't. Here's the title colophon
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_slGfOCDcYb-DfIL4hmoMoIXcHnA1zUp_HwuScdmxOYzvKzD7uDOEqSBnKHS0_83vErd-yqKnFDGA7utpJS7yUJ9068TNZS8zj-jZMR9RsgoYzDeR7_q0rVO4jnm6puJuP8=s0-d)
Read right-to-left, these are foot-high characters that read
LITERATURE. DRINKING.
I don't think a better name for the blog exists, so I'm taking it.
I had the year wrong, it's opening and closing in 2017. Whoops.
Instead, I took a stroll through the Chinese collection, on the lookout for drinking cups I could replicate, and took a ton of photos for my friends with research interests. There was a lot of debate about what exactly this woman
is holding happening in the SCA China facebook group, and I happened to be walking past the statue at the time so I took some video and helped answer the question.
I also took a look at the scrolls section since I have friends who do beautiful calligraphy and are always looking for ideas.
I came across this beautiful scroll:
Which is titled, politely, "Drinking and composing poetry." Except it isn't. Here's the title colophon
Read right-to-left, these are foot-high characters that read
LITERATURE. DRINKING.
I don't think a better name for the blog exists, so I'm taking it.
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