Object Details
- Provenance
- To 1917
- Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]
- From 1917 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [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. 1104, 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
- Exhibition History
- Chinese Art (February 18, 1983 to April 1, 1987)
- Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)
- Chinese Jades and Bronze, East Corridor (November 19, 1923 to March 14, 1931)
- 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
- 6th-9th century
- Period
- Sui or Tang dynasty
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Diam x D: 18.9 x 1.1 cm (7 7/16 x 7/16 in)
- Type
- Mirror
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