"Weng Tonghe guan"Seal
Pu Sen
(Chinese, active in 19th century)
1861
Medium/TechniqueQingtian stone; "Qianjiang qingtian dong" type (the light crimson jelly type of the Qingtian stone)
DimensionsLength x width: 1.7 × 1.7 × 3.7 cm (11/16 × 11/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2019.2019
ClassificationsSeals
Inscriptions辛酉五月又栩制Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 – d. 1904), 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; 2019, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)
