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Three Friends: Plum, Bamboo, Orchid


三友圖軸 (文徵明)
Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559)
Chinese
Ming dynasty
1557

Medium/Technique ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 241.3 x 54.5 cm (95 x 21 7/16 in.)
Image: 166 x 22.3 cm (65 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2018.2918
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Beijing and 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; 2018, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)