wooden box holding a terra cotta pig
Medium/Techniquewood inlaid with pigment
DimensionsLength x width: 12.5 × 9.7 × 5.7 cm (4 15/16 × 3 13/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2019.2011.3a-c
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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)
about 1840–50
Early 20th century
1960s-1970s