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Orchids in Ink


墨蘭
He Shaoji (Chinese, 1799–1873)
Chinese
Qing dynasty

Medium/Technique ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 36.6 × 141.5 cm (14 7/16 × 55 11/16 in.)
Framed: 50.8 × 175.8 × 1.7 cm (20 × 69 3/16 × 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2021.459
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPaintings

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)