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Rubbings from bronzes with painted flowers

(Chinese)
about 1860
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on paper
DimensionsOverall: 169.5 x 51.5 cm (66 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
Image: 119 x 45.6 cm (46 7/8 x 17 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2016.534.2
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ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Inscriptions周愛壺 Zhou dynasty Hu (wine vessel)
ProvenanceAcquired in the nineteenth century by Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 – d. 1904), Changshu, China; 1904, by inheritance from Weng Tonghe to his great-grandson, Weng Zhilian (d. 1919), Changshu and Tianjin; 1919, by inheritance from Weng Zhilian to his son, Wan-go H.C. Weng, Tianjin, New York, and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2016, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)