Object Details
- Description
- Demon head, modelled hollow, with two eye perforations and another at the top of the head.
- Clay: hard, grayish.
- Glaze: dark rich brown.
- Contains stickers on the back.
- Marks
- Contains two stickers.
- Provenance
- To 1916
- Li Wenqing (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1916 [1]
- From 1916 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Li Wenqing, in New York, in 1916 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2452, 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
- Li Wenqing 李文卿 (ca. 1869-1931) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 960-1127
- Period
- Northern Song dynasty
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6 x 5.5 cm (2 3/8 x 2 3/16 in)
- Style
- Cizhou ware
- Type
- Musical Instrument
