- Provenance
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1925
Parish-Watson Company, New York 1925 [1]From 1925
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Parish-Watson Company, New York in 1925 [2]Notes:
[1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Parish-Watson Company
- Description
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Ceremonial wine vessel, type fang tsun. Surface: smooth dark green patina, with two areas of light-green, and a scattering aerugo of malachite green; traces of earthy incrustation. Decoration: in low and high relief. Inscription scratched within the lip.
- Inscription(s)
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Inscription scratched within the lip.
- Published References
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- Parish-Watson Company. Exhibition of Decorative Arts by Parish-Watson & company, inc. New York City: Rare old Chinese porcelains, potteries, bronzes and sculptures; early Persian faience, carpets and miniatures, French furniture and tapestries; English portraits. New York. no. 92.
- Bernhard Karlgren. Some New Bronzes in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. no. 24 Stockholm. fig. 21.
- Sueji Umehara. Shina kodo seikwa [Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and Asia]. 3 vols., Osaka. vol. 1: pl. 18.
- Sueji Umehara. On the Shapes of the Bronze Vessels of Ancient China: An Archaeological Study. Toho Bunka Gakuin kyoto kenkyujo kenkyu hohoku, vol.15 Kyoto. pl. 9, no. 11.
- Sueji Umehara. Amerika no hakubutsukan ni okeru Shina no kobijutsu [Ancient Chinese Art in North American Museums]. no. 16/17, June 1930. pl. 36.
- Osvald Siren. Kinas Konst Under Tre Artusenden. 2 vols., Stockholm, 1942-1943. vol. 1: pl. 7.
- Osvald Siren. A History of Early Chinese Art. 4 vols., London, 1929-1930. pl. 32.
- Hugo Munsterberg. A Short History of Chinese Art. New York, 1949. pl. 3.
- Dr. Berthold Laufer. Archaic Chinese Bronzes of the Shang, Chou and Han periods in the Collections of Mr. Parish-Watson. New York. opp. p. 16, pl. 7.
- Keng Jung. Shang chou i ch'i t'ung k'ao: Researches in Ceremonial Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties. Peiping. vol. 2: pl. 289.
- Chen Mengjia. Yin Zhou qing tong qi fen lei tu lu [Yin-Chou ch'ing t'ung ch'i fen lei t'u lu]. 2 vols., Dongjing. vol. 2: A 405.
- Dagny Carter. Four Thousand Years of China's Art. New York. p. 23.
- Rene Grousset. La Chine et son Art. Collection Ars et historia Paris. p. 28.
- Compiled by the staff of the Freer Gallery of Art. A Descriptive and Illustrative Catalogue of Chinese Bronzes: Acquired During the Administration of John Ellerton Lodge. Oriental Studies Series, no. 3 Washington, 1946. p. 39, pl. 18.
- Agnes E. Meyer. The Charles L. Freer Collection. vol. 12, no. 2 Brooklyn, August 1927. p. 64.
- Hai wai i chen [Chinese Art in Overseas Collections]. Taipei, 1985. p. 86.
- Dr. John Alexander Pope, Rutherford John Gettens, James Cahill, Noel Barnard. The Freer Chinese Bronzes. Oriental Studies Series, vol. 1, no. 7 Washington. cat. 17, p. 105.
- William Willetts. Foundations of Chinese Art from Neolithic Pottery to Modern Architecture. New York, 1965. p. 110.
- Howard F. Collins. Decor, Function, and Contour in Early Chinese Bronzes. vol. 12, no. 2 London, Summer 1966. p. 116, fig. 5.
- Judith Burling, Arthur H. Burling. Chinese Art. New York. p.223.
- Sueji Umehara. Shina kokogaku ronko [Studies in Chinese Archaeology]. Showa 13 Tokyo, 1938-1940. p. 536.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
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