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Flowers in Ink


墨花卷 (蔣廷錫)
Jiang Tingxi (Chinese, 1669–1732)
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1718
Object Place: China

Medium/Technique Ink on silk
Dimensions Height x length (handscroll overall): 23.1 × 477.1 cm (9 1/8 × 187 13/16 in.)
Height x width (painting only): 19 × 135.5 cm (7 1/2 × 53 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2018.2821
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)