Panel with low-relief carving of Buddhist apsaras

Medium
Wood
Dimensions
H x W x D: 51.5 x 18 x 1 cm (20 1/4 x 7 1/16 x 3/8 in)
Geography
Japan
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1904.12
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Furniture and Furnishing
Type

Wood panel, carved

Keywords
apsara, Japan
Provenance

To 1903
Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Paris, to 1903 [1]

From 1904 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the sale of the Charles Gillot Collection, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, through Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), in February 1904 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Voucher No. 14, February 1904, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 934, pg. 16, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] After his death in 1903, a sale of Asian art belonging to French artist Charles Gillot took place in February 1904 at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris. This object was purchased by Mr. Siegfried Bing for Charles Lang Freer at that sale (see Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record). Also, 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.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Charles Gillot (C.L. Freer source) 1853-1903
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
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