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Auspicious Plant


瑞草圖軸 (金農)
Jin Nong (Chinese, 1687–1764)
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1762
Object Place: China

Medium/Technique Ink and color on silk
Dimensions Image: 68.8 × 25.3 cm (27 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Overall: 175 × 46.2 cm (68 7/8 × 18 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2018.2830
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)