- Provenance
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To 1917
Tonying and Company, New York to 1917 [1]From 1917 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tonying and Company, New York in 1917 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1076, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. By at least 1917, Tonying and Company maintained business locations in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, London, and New York, NY.
[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
Tonying and Company (C.L. Freer source) established 1902
- Description
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Thick ring with wide perforation, possibly a bracelet; mottled golden brown and yellow; surface roughened by earth-colored areas of incipient disintegration. (Inner rim slightly chipped.)
Acquired with a box, now lost.
- Published References
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- J. Keith Wilson, Jingmin Zhang. Jades for Life and Death. .
- Julia Murray. Neolithic Chinese Jades in the Freer Gallery of Art. vol. 14, no. 11 Hong Kong, November 1983. p. 21.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Jades for Life and Death
- Google Cultural Institute
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