Pine Tree and Chrysanthemums
Jiang Tingxi
(Chinese, 1669–1732)
Object PlaceChina
Medium/Techniqueink, color on silk
DimensionsImage: 128.5 × 57.2 cm (50 9/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
Overall: 256.5 × 75.5 × 3.7 cm (101 × 29 3/4 × 1 7/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2822
ClassificationsPaintings
Inscriptionscolophon indicating a long family collecting history, ten generations when WEng Tonghe inherited the scroll.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)
