Couplet in Running Script Calligraphy
Wen Zhengming
(Chinese, 1470–1559)
Object PlaceChina
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper with sparkled gold
DimensionsImage (right): 156.4 × 30.6 cm (61 9/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Image (left): 155.6 × 30.6 cm (61 1/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
Overall (right): 189.2 × 36.7 cm (74 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)
Overall (left): 188.4 × 37 cm (74 3/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Image (left): 155.6 × 30.6 cm (61 1/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
Overall (right): 189.2 × 36.7 cm (74 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)
Overall (left): 188.4 × 37 cm (74 3/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2859.1-2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCalligraphy
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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)
