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Poems in small standard script calligraphy

Yu Ruoying (Chinese，1552–1610)

about 1600

Object PlaceChina

Medium/TechniqueInk on paper

DimensionsHeight x length (handscroll overall): 28.1 × 1405.3 cm (11 1/16 × 553 1/4 in.)

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

Accession number2018.2862

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ClassificationsCalligraphy

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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)