Foliated mirror with felines and birds

From at least 1929
Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (1871-1941), New York and "The Chimneys," Sands Point, Port Washington, Long Island, from at least 1929 [1]

From at least 1944
Tonying and Company, New York, from at least February 1944 [2]

From 1944
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company on February 7, 1944 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Yamanaka & Company, To-So Seikwa: Select relics of the Tang and Sung Dynasties from the Collections in Europe and America (Osaka, 1929), vol. 2, pl. 39.

[2] See Tonying & Company’s invoice, dated February 7, 1944, in which the mirror figures under no. B. 33: “Bronze Polyfoliate Mirror, designs of floral scrolls, flying Phoenixes, etc. / Tang.” copy in object file. The acquisition was approved by C. G. Abbot, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, on February 4, 1944, see “List of Objects Contemplated for Purchase by the Freer Gallery of Art,” copy in object file.

[3] See invoice cited in note 2. See also A. G. Wenley’s letter to C. F. Yau, Tonying & Company, dated February 5, 1944, in which Wenley confirms the purchase of the mirror along with seven other mirrors from the Holmes collection (see records for F1944.3, F1944.5-F1944.10).