- Provenance
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To 1936
Yamanaka and Company, Boston. [1]From 1936
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, Boston. [2]Notes:
[1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
[2] See note 1.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Yamanaka and Co. 1917-1965
- Description
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Ceremonial covered vessel, type huo, in the form of an elephant. Wooden stand. Surface: a light green patina. Decoration: cast in low relief; final in the round.
- Published References
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- Daily Life in Shang Dynasty China. Cover.
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- unknown title. no. 7. pl. 1.
- William Watson. The Art of Dynastic China. New York, 1981. ill. 213.
- Benjamin Rowland, Laurence Sickman, H. G. Henderson, Robert Treat Paine, Richard Ettinghausen, Eric Schroeder. The University Prints. Oriental Art Series O 4 vols. Newton, Massachusetts, 1938-1941. Section 2: Early Chinese Art, pl. 100.
- Sueji Umehara. Shina kokogaku ronko [Studies in Chinese Archaeology]. Showa 13 Tokyo, 1938-1940. pl. 36b, fig. 1.
- 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. 25, fig. 1.
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- Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary, 1935. Washington, 1935-1936. pl. 2.
- Osvald Siren. Kinas Konst Under Tre Artusenden. 2 vols., Stockholm, 1942-1943. vol. 1: pl. 12.
- Sekai bijutsu zenshu [A Complete Collection of World Art]. 40 vols., Tokyo, F1951-1953. cat. 63, vol. 2.
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- Lawrence S. Cunningham, John J. Reich. Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities., 6th ed. Belmont, CA. fig. 5.8.
- Bernhard Karlgren. Some New Bronzes in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. no. 24 Stockholm. fig. 38.
- 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. 370.
- Keng Jung, Chang Wei. Yin Chou ch'ing t'ung ch'i t'ung lun [A Survey of Shang-Chou Bronzes]. Peking. cat. 143.
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- Higuchi Takayasu. Chugoku seidoki hyakusen., 1 hen. Tokyo. pl. 22.
- Cheng Te-k'un. Archaeology in China. 3 vols., Cambridge, England. vol. 2: pl. 54.
- Michel Beurdeley. L'amateur chinois des Han au XXe siecle. Aspects de l'art Fribourg. fig. 115.
- 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 675.
- Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 5, vol. 1: p. 153.
- Albert M. Craig. The Heritage of Chinese Civilization., 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. p. 10.
- Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art handbook. Washington, 1976. p. 11.
- Alexander Coburn Soper. A Case of Meaningful Magic: In Honor of the Ninth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal. Washington, 1990. p. 12, fig. 1.
- Lin-ts'an Li. Chung-kuo ti i shu kuang hui. no. 20, . p. 14.
- et al. The Heritage of World Civilization. combined volume, , 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. p. 17.
- Rene Grousset. Chinese Art and Culture. New York. p. 32.
- Yumiko Suefusa. Yin and Chou Bronzes, with Special Reference to ssu kuang-Type Receptacles. no. 55 Tokyo, March 1978. p. 36.
- Terry F. Kleeman, Tracy Barrett. The Ancient Chinese World. World in Ancient Times Oxford and New York. p. 47.
- 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. 51, pl. 24.
- Etienne Martin. Le Gout Chinois du Cardinal Louis de Rohan: Les Collections Extreme-Orientales du Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Exh. cat. Strasbourg. p. 94.
- Walter Karp. The Smithsonian Institution: An Establishment for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Among Men. Washington. p. 117.
- Conrad Phillip Kottak. Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology., 3rd ed. New York. p. 178.
- Judith Burling, Arthur H. Burling. Chinese Art. New York. p. 223.
- Dr. John Alexander Pope, Rutherford John Gettens, James Cahill, Noel Barnard. The Freer Chinese Bronzes. Oriental Studies Series, vol. 1, no. 7 Washington. cat. 40, p. 229.
- Jack Hobbs, Richard Salome, Ken Vieth. The Visual Experience., 3rd ed. Worcester, Massachusetts, 2004-2005. pp. 355, 362.
- Mizuno Seiichi, Yukio Kobayashi. Zukai kokogaku jiten [Dictionary of Archaeology]. Tokyo. p. 454.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
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