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Crabs in Ink

Zhang Shouzhong (Chinese, active 1335–1368)

Object PlaceChina

Medium/TechniqueInk on silk

DimensionsHeight x length (handscroll overall): 35 × 594.9 cm (13 3/4 × 234 3/16 in.)
Height x width (painting only): 31.4 × 274.8 cm (12 3/8 × 108 3/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe

Accession number2018.2851

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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)