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Ink Orchids
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Ink Orchids

Qian Chaoding (Chinese)
Medium/TechniqueInk on silk
DimensionsImage: 32.5 × 491.5 cm (12 13/16 × 193 1/2 in.)
Overall: 35.1 × 851.3 cm (13 13/16 × 335 3/16 in.)
Height x width (Frontispiece): 31.9 × 78.7 cm (12 9/16 × 31 in.)
Height x width (End piece with colophon): 32.3 × 173.5 cm (12 11/16 × 68 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2940
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Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Beijing and 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; 2018, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)