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German princess portrait embroidery
German princess portrait embroidery

German princess portrait embroidery

Yu Shenshou (Chinese, 20th century)
1909
Object PlaceChina
Medium/Techniquesilk embroidery on satin silk
DimensionsOverall: 33.3 × 28 × 7.5 cm (13 1/8 × 11 × 2 15/16 in.)
Framed: 26.2 × 21.5 × 1.4 cm (10 5/16 × 8 7/16 × 9/16 in.)
Image: 12.2 cm (4 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2903
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
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)