- Provenance
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To 1917
Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1917 [1]From 1917 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, 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. 1341, pg. 308, 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
Dikran Garabed Kelekian 1868-1951
- Published References
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- William Watson. The Art of Dynastic China. New York, 1981. ill. 369.
- Chugoku bijutsu [Chinese Art in Western Collections]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1972-1973. vol. 3: pl. 28.
- Mary Augusta Nourse. The Four Hundred Million: A Short Story of the Chinese., 1st ed. Indianapolis and New York. opp. p. 107.
- Osvald Siren. Kinas Konst Under Tre Artusenden. 2 vols., Stockholm, 1942-1943. vol. 1: pl. 355.
- Osvald Siren. Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century: Over 900 Specimens in Stone, Bronze, Lacquer and Wood, Principally from Northern China. 4 vols., London. vol. 2: pls. 139-140.
- Capolavori nei secoli: Enciclopedia di tutte i popoli in tutti i tempi. 12 vols., Milan, 1961 - 1964. p. 38.
- J. LeRoy Davidson. Traces of Buddhist Evangelism in Early Chinese Art. vol. 11 Washington and Zurich. p. 255.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
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