- Provenance
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To 1916
Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]From 1916 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]From 1920
The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 875, pg. 189, 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.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Lai-Yuan & Company (C.L. Freer source) ca. 1915-April 1921
- Description
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Ceremonial implement; very thin; one slightly convex side; lateral edge flares to a sharp concave end with uneven points; one lateral edge partly sharpened; lateral projection on each side above a perforated tang; rough longitudinal ridge on obverse; reverse has cutting irregularity on handle; translucent, mottled light and dark bluish gray. (Slightly chipped.)
Acquired with a box, now lost.
- Published References
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- J. Keith Wilson, Jingmin Zhang. Jades for Life and Death. .
- Geoffrey WIlls. Jade of the East., 1st ed. New York, 1972. fig. 22.
- Guang Wen. Shuoqian zibi: Guyu xutan 1. no. 207 Taipei, 2000. pp. 32-33, fig. 6-7.
- Minao Hayashi. Chūgoku kogyoku no kenkyū. Tokyo, 1991. p. 439, fig. 6: 2.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Jades for Life and Death
- Google Cultural Institute
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