Object Details
- Description
- Cup, with tall body and sturdy conical foot which thickens to nearly a point where it meets the base of the bowl.
- Surface: dark surface with green patina. Earth adhesions.
- Decoration: none.
- Provenance
- To 1913
- Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1913 [1]
- From 1913 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1913 [2]
- From 1920
- The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 451-457, page 109, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 960-1279
- Period
- Possibly Song dynasty
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 5.2 x 7.4 cm (2 1/16 x 2 15/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
