A pair of seven-character couplet scrolls, in clerical script, for Weng Zhilian
Weng Tonghe
(Chinese, 1830–1904)
1900
Medium/Techniqueink on gold-flecked orange paper; pasted seals
DimensionsOverall (each scroll): 238.5 × 50 cm (93 7/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
Image (each calligraphy): 201.8 × 44.4 cm (79 7/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
Image (each calligraphy): 201.8 × 44.4 cm (79 7/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2021.481.1-2
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)
Weng Tonghe
Artist unknown, Japanese
late 19th–early 20th century
endpaper: 1920 (Taishô 9)