Calligraphy Couplet in Regular Script|A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper, signed Disheng Zeng Guofan, followed by two artist's seals reading Zeng Guofan yin and Disheng.|53 x 12 5/8in (134.6 x 32.1cm)|曾國藩 楷書七言聯 水墨紙本 立軸一對Provenance Quincy Adams Shaw Jr. (1896-1987)Thence by descent to the present ownerQuincy Adams Shaw Jr. was born into a Boston family of enormous prominence and wealth, his grandfather, the first Quincy Adams Shaw, having been the president of the famed Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. The Shaw family built a significant art collection, including both Asian and European works, later gifting pieces by Millet, Corot and Donatello to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.