A pair of eight-character calligraphy couplet scrolls in running script
Weng Xincun
(Chinese, 1791 – 1862)
Medium/Techniqueink on gold-flecked orange paper
DimensionsOverall (each scroll): 280 × 33.5 cm (110 1/4 × 13 3/16 in.)
Image (each calligraphy): 159.3 × 30 cm (62 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Image (each calligraphy): 159.3 × 30 cm (62 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2021.473.1-2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCalligraphy
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 (b. 1918 - d. 2020), Tianjin, New York, and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2021, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 2021)