"Ci Ming" Seal
1644–1912
Medium/TechniqueTianhuang stone
DimensionsLength x width: 1.9 × 1.1 × 1.7 cm (3/4 × 7/16 × 11/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2019.2049
ClassificationsSeals
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)
