Data Source

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Previous custodian or owner

Hayashi Tadamasa 林 忠正? (French (born Japan), 1853 - 1906) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Provenance

To 1903

Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906), Paris and Tokyo, to 1903 [1]

From 1903 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the Hayashi sale, through Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, in 1903 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Reserved Wood Carving List, R. 5304, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also the object record for F1903.284.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Medium

Wood

Dimensions

H x W x D: 55.9 x 20.4 x 1.2 cm (22 x 8 1/16 x 1/2 in)

Type

Furniture and Furnishing

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Accession Number

F1903.285

Topic

Buddhism

music

lotus

biwa

Japan

apsara

Japanese Art

Origin

Japan

Restrictions & Rights

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