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Letters in Cursive Script Calligraphy


手簡卷十二通
Huang Daozhou (Chinese, 1585–1645)
Chinese
Ming dynasty
Object Place: China

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Height x length (handscroll overall): 29.7 × 865.9 cm (11 11/16 × 340 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2018.2864
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCalligraphy

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)