content: ca. 5th century BCE

content: Middle Eastern Zhou dynasty

label: Description

content: Ceremonial basin ("chien"). Several small holes.

content: Surface: mingled green, red and brownish patina.

content: Decoration: engraved for inlay with mouldings in low relief. Inside: low relief, mask and ring mandles.

label: Provenance

content: To 1915

content: Marcel Bing (1875-1920), Paris, France [1]

content: Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), Washington, DC and Mt. Kisco, NY purchased on behalf of Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) from Marcel Bing through C. T. Loo of Lai Yuan &Co., New York in early December 1915 [2]

content: 1915 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Eugene Meyer on December 14, 1915 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Bing’s ownership is documented in several locations. See, for example: November 11, 1915 letter from Marcel Bing to Charles Lang Freer; letters from December 10 and 15 from Eugene Meyer to Charles Lang Freer; telegrams exchanged between Marcel Bing, Charles Lang Freer, and Eugene Meyer dating from November 15 to December 5, 1915; February 2, 1916 letter from Charles Lang Freer to Marcel Bing; and Freer Gallery of Art Original Bronze List S.I. 675. Copies of aforementioned documents in object file.

content: [2] Eugene Meyer, Agnes E. Meyer, and Charles Lang Freer negotiated with Marcel Bing to arrange a joint purchase of Bing’s collection of 11 Chinese bronzes and 1 jade. See correspondence cited in note 1. The Meyers and Freer decided to divide the collection - Meyers acquiring 5 bronzes and Freer acquiring 6 bronzes in addition to the jade – and the price, calculating each party’s payment was based on the appraisal values assigned to each piece. The Meyers ultimately sent the entire payment to C. T. Loo, Lai Yuan & Company (sometimes spelled Lai-Yuan), who in turn wired money to Bing. Meyers made the payment in early December 1915, with Freer paying the Meyers for the objects destined for his collection on December 14, 1915.

content: See also: Freer Gallery of Art, Original Bronze List, S. I. 670; invoices from Lai Yuan & Company addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Meyer and Mr. Charles L. Freer; and Dorota Chudzicka, “’In Love at First Sight Completely, Hopelessly, and Forever with Chinse Art’: The Eugene and Agnes Meyer Collection of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art” in Collections Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer 2014), p. 334-335, copies in object file. All the objects included in this large sale, which were originally divided between the Meyers and Freer, are now in the museum’s collection ( F1915.102; F1915.03a-b; F1915.104; F1915.105; F1915.106a-f; F1915.107; F1915.108; F1961.30a-b; F1961.32a-b; F1968.28; F1968.29).

content: [3] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 675, copy in object file. See also note 2.

content: [4] 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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Art and Industry: China’s Houma Foundry (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

content: Chinese Metalwork (May 9, 1993 to March 21, 1997)

content: Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Marcel Bing (1875-1920)

content: Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: animal

content: bird

content: fish

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 18: Art and Industry: China's Ancient Houma Foundry

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

content: Vessel

content: Bronze

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 28 x 61.4 cm (11 x 24 3/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Meyer, Eugene and Agnes E.
Bing, Marcel

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Animals
Sculpture
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
Chinese Art
Fishes
Birds
Metal-work

room: Gallery 18

content: China

label: Title

content: Basin (jian) with narrative scenes

title_sort: BASIN (JIAN) WITH NARRATIVE SCENES

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Basin (jian) with narrative scenes


unitCode: FSG

type: edanmdm

label: Date

content: ca. 1625-1630

label: School/Tradition

content: Marwar school

content: Surrounded by four trees and six peacocks, a lady, wearing an orange jama, stands beside a lotus filled pond. She holds two flower staffs.

label: Inscriptions

content: Recto: (top in yellow panel), in devnagari : Raga Gau Ragini

content: Verso: (top left) devanagari numerals 120; Underneath is another notation which cannot be deciphered, perhaps MO 221?

content: (top right) devanagari ?

content: (top right) devanagari ?

content: To 1947

content: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) [1]

content: From 1947 to 1974

content: Rama Coomaraswamy (1929-2006), Greenwich, Connecticut, by gift or inheritance after his father, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s death in 1947 [2]

content: From 1974 to 2001

content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), Beverly Hills, California, purchased from Rama Coomaraswamy, Greenwich, Connecticut [3]

content: From 2001 to 2018

content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001

content: From 2018

content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim

content: Notes:

content: [1] Rama Coomaraswamy was the son of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, an important figure in the field of Indian and Sri Lankan art history. Coomaraswamy was largely responsible for providing the conceptual structures through which South Asian art became studied and valued in India and in the west. Because A.K. Coomaraswamy spent the second half of his life in the U.S., it is highly unlikely that any art from his personal collection would have a contested provenance.

content: [2] According to information from Catherine Glynn Benkaim.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection

content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim

content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)

content: Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947)

label: Origin

content: Marwar, Rajasthan state, India

label: Topic

content: peacock

content: tree

content: lotus

content: woman

content: ragamala

content: India

content: South Asian and Himalayan Art

content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

content: H x W (overall): 23.5 × 19 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in)

name:
Benkaim, Ralph and Catherine
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.
Benkaim, Catherine Glynn

place:
Rajasthan state
Marwar
India

topic:
Trees
South Asian and Himalayan Art
Peacock
Art
Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
Ragamala
Lotus
Woman

culture:
Himalayan peoples
South Asians

type: Country

content: India

content: Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

unit_code: FSG

title_sort: GAURI RAGINI, FOLIO FROM A RAGAMALA

type: Images

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala


label: Period

content: Edo period

label: Artist

content: Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

label: Description

content: Eight Views of Omi Province. Eight inscriptions, signature and seal. Silk makimono.

label: Signatures

content: Kunaikyō hōin Tanyū gyōnen rokujūsai hitsu

content: 宮内卿法印探幽行年六十歳筆

content: 宮内卿法印探幽行年六十歳筆

label: Marks

content: Artist's seal following signature: Tanyūsai 探幽斎

label: Label

content: The subject of this handscroll is the Eight Views of Omi, the region around Lake Biwa near Kyoto. The landscapes are executed in a soft, evocative style that suggests rather than delineates forms. Above each scene is a Japanese poem, written in elegant cursive Japanese hiragana script following to the left of the title in Chinese characters. Tan'yu's signature at the end of the scroll gives his title as "Seal of the Law, official of the Imperial Palace." The title Hoin (Seal of the [Buddhist] Law) was an honorific ecclesiastical title awarded to painters of high standing. After early training in Kyoto, Kano Tan'yu moved to Edo and became an official painter for the Tokugawa shoguns. He established an atelier in the Kajibashi district of Edo and received many important commissions, including the decoration of Edo Castle in 1622 and Nijo Castle in Kyoto in 1626.

content: In addition to mastering the Chinese painting styles that had become a specialty of the Kano school, Tan'yu became proficient in the elegant courtly style of traditional Japanese painting that was a specialty of artists of the Tosa and Sumiyoshi schools. This style was popular among Tan'yu's patrons, who predominantly belonged to high level daimyo families but consciously sought to acquire the cultivation and prestige of Kyoto court culture.

label: Provenance

content: To 1904

content: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), Kidderminster, England, to 1904 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Michael Tomkinson in 1904 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Makimono Reserved List, R. 440, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Seasons: Arts of Japan (February 5, 2011 to January 13, 2013)

content: Landscapes in Japanese Art (February 2 to July 15, 2007)

content: Real and Imagined Places in Japanese Art (March 4 to October 21, 2001)

content: Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu (June 6, 1998 to February 15, 1999)

content: Japanese Art—Autumn Voices (October 14, 1981 to December 16, 1981)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Japan

content: makimono

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (overall): 27.3 x 276.7 cm (10 3/4 x 108 15/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Tomkinson, Michael

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Makimono

content: Japan

content: Eight Views of Omi Province

title_sort: EIGHT VIEWS OF OMI PROVINCE

title: Eight Views of Omi Province


label: Date

content: 6th century BCE

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period

content: Vessel of the type hu. Stand. Decorations cast in relief and countersunk relief; 2 annular handles on shoulder and 1 near base; inlays of turquoise; green patination and earthy incrustations.

content: To 1924

content: Lee Sung-shan, Beijing to 1924 [1]

content: From 1924

content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Lee Sung-shan, Beijing through Carl Whiting Bishop in 1924 [2]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.

content: [2] See note 1. Also see Original Bishop List, No. B-9, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Added to the collection by Mr. A. G. Wenley.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Lee Sung-shan

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: bird

content: dragon

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: Spring and Autumn period (770 - 476 BCE)

content: wine

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Carl Whiting Bishop collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Vessel

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze

content: H x W: 25.9 x 18.2 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/16 in)

content: China

label: Title

content: Wine container (hu) with birds and dragons

title_sort: WINE CONTAINER (HU) WITH BIRDS AND DRAGONS

label: High-resolution TIFF


content: early 17th-mid 18th century

label: Provenance

content: From 1975-76 to 1992

content: Private collection, collected from Wihan Somdet Palace, Ayutthaya, Thailand between 1975 and 1976. [1]

content: From 1992

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of an anonymous donor. [2]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record.

content: [2] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

label: Collection

content: Freer Study Collection

content: Anonymous

content: Possibly Netherlands

content: glass

content: Thailand

content: Southeast Asian Art

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Anonymous donor

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

content: Unclassified

content: Glass

content: H x W: 4.7 x 4.2 cm (1 7/8 x 1 5/8 in)

topic:
Art
Glass
Southeast Asian Art

content: Thailand

content: Glass fragment

title_sort: GLASS FRAGMENT

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Glass fragment


content: 9th-mid 10th century

label: Period

content: Tang dynasty or Five Dynasties period

label: Description

content: Sarcophagus: small rectangular, with sloping roof. Circular opening. Cover. Ashes of charcoal within.

content: Unglazed pottery.

content: Clay: soft, dense, red.

content: Glaze: thin, blackish wash, largely disappeared.

content: Decoration: an incised design at one end representing a pair of door. Studs in relief on cover.

content: To 1918

content: Wang Jiantang, Shanghai to 1918 [1]

content: From 1918 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Wang Jiantang, in New York, in 1918 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Pottery List, L, 2580, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Wang Jiantang 王鑑堂 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: ceramic

content: Tang dynasty (618 - 907)

content: Five Dynasties period (907 - 960)

content: China

content: earthenware

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Container

content: Unglazed earthenware

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 22.7 x 38.5 cm (8 15/16 x 15 3/16 in)

name:
Wang, Jiantang
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Five Dynasties period (907 - 960)
Chinese Art
Pottery
Tang dynasty (618 - 907)
Ceramics

content: China

content: Sarcophagus

title_sort: SARCOPHAGUS

title: Sarcophagus


label: Date

content: ca. 1050-221 BCE

content: Zhou dynasty

content: To 1917

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]

content: From 1917 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1258, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: dragon

content: Zhou dynasty (ca. 1050 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

content: Vessel

content: Bronze

content: H x W: 11.2 x 2.5 cm (4 7/16 x 1 in)

date:
BCE 0s
BCE 1000s

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Yamanaka and Co.

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Sculpture
Chinese Art
Zhou dynasty (ca. 1050 - 221 BCE)
Dragon
Metal-work

content: China

content: Handle of a ritual vessel (fragment)

title_sort: HANDLE OF A RITUAL VESSEL (FRAGMENT)

title: Handle of a ritual vessel (fragment)


label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Label

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G336 state 1 of 1.

label: Provenance

content: Cox Collection [1]

content: To 1903

content: Obach & Co., London, to 1903 [2]

content: From 1903 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1903 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

content: [2] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Voucher No. 1, July 11- November 1903, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] 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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Cox Collection

content: Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: architecture

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Type

content: Print

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W: 17.7 x 6.7 cm (6 15/16 x 2 5/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Obach & Co.
Cox Collection

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Architecture
American Art
Etching (printing process)

content: United States

label: Title

content: Gold House, Brussels

title_sort: GOLD HOUSE, BRUSSELS

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Gold House, Brussels


content: 18th century

label: Period

content: Edo period

content: Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙 (1733-1795)

content: To 1904

content: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), Kidderminster, England, to 1904 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Michael Tomkinson in 1904 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono Reserved List, T. 125, pg. 30, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: turtle

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: water

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W (image): 106.8 x 46.7 cm (42 1/16 x 18 3/8 in)

topic:
Water
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Turtles

content: Japan

content: Turtles

title_sort: TURTLES

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Turtles


label: Date

content: ca. 520

content: Period of Division

content: Abel William Bahr [1877-1959] or Peter J. Bahr [died circa 1928] [1]

content: To 1912

content: N.E. Montross (1849-1932), New York, NY, to 1912 [2]

content: From 1912 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from N.E. Montross in 1912 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record. Peter J. Bahr (died circa 1928) and Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) were brothers born in Shanghai. Peter remained in Shanghai. Abel left Shanghai in 1910, after which he lived, at various points in time, in London, Montreal, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He established a gallery in New York City in 1920.

content: [2] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 375, p. 118, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Abel William Bahr (1877-1959)

content: Peter Johannes Bahr (1882-1929)

content: N.E. Montross (1849-1932) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: stone

content: Buddhism

content: Period of Division (220 - 589)

content: shrine

content: forgery

content: China

content: abhaya mudra

content: varada mudra

content: anjali mudra

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Sculpture

content: Stone

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D (overall): 30.9 x 15.9 x 7.6 cm (12 3/16 x 6 1/4 x 3 in)

name:
Bahr, Peter Johannes
Freer, Charles Lang
Montross, N. E.
Bahr, Abel William

topic:
Period of Division (220 - 589)
Charles Lang Freer collection
Shrine
Art
Chinese Art
Varada mudra
Anjali mudra
Forgery
Abhaya mudra
Stone

culture: Buddhists Chinese

content: China

content: Buddhist tablet in the form of a miniature shrine

title_sort: BUDDHIST TABLET IN THE FORM OF A MINIATURE SHRINE


label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Provenance

content: From 1876 to 1892

content: Frederick Richards Leyland (1831-1892), London, from 1876 [1]

content: From 1892 to 1894

content: Estate of Frederick Richards Leyland, London, from 1892 [2]

content: From 1894 to 1904

content: Mrs. James Watney (Blanche Marie Georgiana Burrell Watney), London, purchased from the Estate of Frederick Richards Leyland in 1894 [3]

content: Obach & Co., London, purchased from Mrs. James Watney, through Messrs. Brown and Phillips of the Leicester Galleries, London, in 1904 [4]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1904 [5]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [6]

content: Notes:

content: [1] These panels were removed from a staircase in Frederick Richard Leyland's house, 49 Prince's Gate, London (see Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record). When Frederick Richard Leyland died in 1892, 49 Prince's Gate - and its contents - was offered for sale.

content: Leyland's porcelains and other treasures were sold. The house - which still contained these stair panels, as well as the famous Peacock Room - did not bring a high enough offer and it was withdrawn from sale. It was finally purchased in 1894 by Mrs. James (Blanche) Watney. Upon discovering that the Peacock Room could be taken apart and reassembled, Mrs. Watney decided to sell the room. In 1903, Mrs. Watney engaged Messrs. Brown and Phillips of the Leicester Galleries in Leicester Square as agents. Unable to purchase, dismantle, and reassemble the room on their own, Ernest Brown, one of principals, enlisted the cooperation of Obach & Co., a larger gallery on New Bond Street. In 1904, Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room from Obach & Co., and soon thereafter purchased these stair panels (see Curatorial Remark 5, David Park Curry, 1984, in the object record). See also, F1904.61, Curatorial Remarks and Provenance, for more information.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] See note 1.

content: [4] See note 1. Also, the exact nature of the transactions between Mrs. Watney, Messrs. Brown and Phillips of the Leicester Galleries, and Obach & Co. is somewhat unclear. Messrs. Brown and Phillips appear to have acted simply as agents for Mrs. Watney, facilitating the sale of architectural fragments of 49 Prince's Gate, from Mrs. Watney to Obach & Co.

content: Obach & Co. appear to have been full owners of these pieces, having purchased them from Mrs. Watney before selling them to Freer.

content: [5] See notes 1 and 4.

content: [6] 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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Decorator (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: flower

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Oil paint and metal leaf on wood

content: H x W: 51.1 x 36.8 cm (20 1/8 x 14 1/2 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art
Flowers

content: United States

content: Staircase panel

title_sort: STAIRCASE PANEL

title: Staircase panel


content: 9th or 10th century

label: Period

content: Heian period

label: Description

content: The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Kannon).

content: Pedestal. Box. Wood; lacquered and gilded. Surface worn and incrusted, only vestiges of gilding remaining. Agate urna inset. Ornaments of bronze filigree (blackened), with insets and attachments of glass and pottery. Sanskrit character under glass inset in the headdress.

content: To 1909

content: Count Tanaka, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Count Tanaka through Samurai Shokai, Yokohama, in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 172, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Moonlight and Clouds: Silver and Gold in the Arts of Japan (November 11, 2008 to November 11, 2009)

content: Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

content: Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to November 21, 1995)

content: Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 1 and 2 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)

content: Japanese Paintings and Sculpture (May 2, 1923 to January 5, 1928)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Count Tanaka (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: gilding

content: wood

content: lacquer

content: Buddhism

content: bodhisattva

content: Heian period (794 - 1185)

content: Avalokiteshvara

content: Guanyin

content: Kannon

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Sanskrit

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Sculpture

content: Wood with lacquer and gilding

content: H x W x D (figure on base): 59.8 x 35.4 x 32.3 cm (23 9/16 x 13 15/16 x 12 11/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Tanaka

topic:
Gilding
Heian period (794 - 1185)
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Kannon
Wood
Japanese Art
Lacquer
Avalokite?svara (Buddhist deity)
Bodhisattva
Guanyin
Sanskrit

culture: Buddhists Japanese

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon)

title_sort: BODHISATTVA AVALOKITESHVARA (KANNON)

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon)


label: Date

content: 30 BCE-395 CE

content: Possibly Roman Period

content: To 1907

content: Unidentified owner, Egypt, to 1907 [1]

content: From 1907 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Egypt from an unidentified owner in 1907 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2318, as well as Reserved Pottery List, R. 5567, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. One of a lot of seventy-two fragments.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: ceramic

content: Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Unclassified

content: Glazed clay

content: H x W: 4.8 x 4.6 cm (1 7/8 x 1 13/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Ancient Egyptian Art
Ceramics
Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

type: Continent

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Fragment

title_sort: FRAGMENT

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Fragment


content: 5th-4th century BCE

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 960, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: casting

content: inlay (process)

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D: 24.6 x 3.4 x 5.4 cm (9 11/16 x 1 5/16 x 2 1/8 in)

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Inlay (process)
Sculpture
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
Chinese Art
Metal-work

content: China

object_type: Ornaments Jewelry

content: Garment hook (daigou)

title_sort: GARMENT HOOK (DAIGOU)

title: Garment hook (daigou)


content: 206 BCE-220 CE

label: Period

content: Han dynasty

label: Description

content: Clay: hard, dense, gray.

content: Unglazed. Earth deposits.

content: Decoration: a dragon design in relief.

content: Wood stand.

content: To 1918

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1918 [1]

content: From 1918 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1918 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 2582, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: ceramic

content: dragon

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: unglazed

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Architectural Element

content: Unglazed pottery

content: Diam x D: 14.8 x 2.9 cm (5 13/16 x 1 1/8 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Unglazed
Art
Chinese Art
Ceramics
Dragon
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

label: Title

content: Circular tile with design of dragon

title_sort: CIRCULAR TILE WITH DESIGN OF DRAGON

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Circular tile with design of dragon


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Label

content: Whistler used two pages from his notebook for this drawing. He later removed the sheets from the notebook and joined them at the center of the composition. Sharply incised lines surround the image, suggesting that he would have brought the viewer closer to the composition and eliminated some of the detail had he taken the conception further. The scene shows a group of figures approaching a columned portico. The general composition recalls earlier views of Dieppe. Architectural features in this drawing suggest that the spot is one of the baths or gambling casinos of Baden Baden. In the distance, buildings nestled against the hills of the Black Forest can be seen. A French geography book of 1878 attributed the city's appeal not to any commercial attraction, but to the beauty of the setting and les agrements de la vie.

content: Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]

content: To 1898

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1898 [2]

content: From 1898 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in November 1898 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Haden Collection Drawings, pg. 2, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See Voucher No. 20, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] 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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and Modern Life (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)

content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)

content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: United States

label: Topic

content: woman

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Drawing

content: Pencil on off-white wove paper

content: H x W: 15.3 x 19.5 cm (6 x 7 11/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Haden, Seymour
H. Wunderlich & Co.

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art
Woman

content: United States

content: Promenade à Baden

title_sort: PROMENADE À BADEN

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Promenade à Baden


content: ca. early 11th century BCE

content: Late Shang dynasty, Late Anyang period

content: Ceremonial wine vessel, type chueh. Surface: variable apple green and bluish patina; traces of earthy incrustation; pin hole in bottom; tips of the three legs repaired. Decoration: cast in low and incised relief; flanges strongly projecting.

content: Equipping tombs and offering elaborate symbolic banquets to deceased family members were important ritual acts in ancient China. This small jue held a serving of grain wine for an honored ancestor.

label: Provenance

content: Parish-Watson Company, New York 1925 [1]

content: From 1925

content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Parish-Watson Company, New York in the spring of 1925 [2]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Ancient Chinese Jades and Bronzes (November 20, 2010 to January 3, 2016)

content: Chinese Art (February 18, 1983 to April 1, 1987)

content: Chinese Art (June 15, 1982 to September 24, 1982)

content: Chinese Art (March 15, 1982 to June 15, 1982)

content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

content: Chinese Bronze, Jade, Marble (March 1, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

content: Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 14 and 15 (February 25, 1956 to March 1, 1957)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1955 (October 24, 1955 to February 25, 1956)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1945 (January 9, 1945 to August 20, 1955)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1944 (December 13, 1944 to May 7, 1946)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to December 13, 1944)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

content: Chinese Jades and Bronze, East Corridor (November 19, 1923 to March 14, 1931)

content: Parish-Watson Company

content: Anyang, Henan province, China

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Anyang period, Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1300 - 1050 BCE)

content: wine

content: mask

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: taotie

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Vessel

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D: 24.9 x 22.6 x 13.7 cm (9 13/16 x 8 7/8 x 5 3/8 in)

place:
China
Henan province
Anyang

content: China

content: Ritual wine warmer with taotie

title_sort: RITUAL WINE WARMER WITH TAOTIE

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Ritual wine warmer with taotie


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: 3, 8

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G200 state 11 of 12.

content: To 1893

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1893 [1]

content: From 1893 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1893 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: The Texture of Night: James McNeill Whistler (June 6, 2009 to July 25, 2010)

content: Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (March 23, 1962 to July 4, 1962)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Prints (December 12, 1955 to February 25, 1956)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Etchings, Lithographs, and Drypoint (September 24, 1947 to April 11, 1955)

content: Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler (March 23, 1925 to March 24, 1930)

content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)

content: American Paintings, Etchings, and Lithographs. J.A.McN. Whistler (May 2, 1923 to January 7, 1924)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: palace

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Print

content: Etching and drypoint; ink on paper

content: H x W (overall): 29.5 x 19.9 cm (11 5/8 x 7 13/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
H. Wunderlich & Co.

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Palace
American Art
Etching (printing process)

content: United States

label: Title

content: Nocturne: Palaces

title_sort: NOCTURNE: PALACES

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Nocturne: Palaces


label: Period

content: Edo period

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Reserved Textile List, R. 243, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Japan

label: Topic

content: repairing

content: brocading

content: weft patterning

content: silk (fiber)

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Costume and Textile

content: Silk

content: H x W: 152.5 x 30.5 cm (60 1/16 x 12 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Silk (fiber)
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Repairing
Brocading
Weft patterning

content: Japan

object_type: Costume Textiles

content: Brocade, silk. An oblong strip, patched (ohi 被)

title_sort: BROCADE, SILK. AN OBLONG STRIP, PATCHED (OHI 被)

label: High-resolution JPEG


content: Edo period

label: Description

content: Clay: white porcelain, dark brown on exposed surface.

content: Glaze: brilliant gray-olive, mingled with cream and light brown of dull luster; base glazed inside foot.

content: To 1897

content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1897 [1]

content: From 1897 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1897 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 504, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Kumamoto prefecture, Japan

content: ceramic

content: Hagi ware

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: tea

content: Japan

content: stoneware

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Vessel

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Stoneware with wood-ash and rice-straw-ash glazes

label: Dimensions

content: H x Diam: 7.3 × 14.9 cm (2 7/8 × 5 7/8 in)

label: Style

content: Shodai ware

place:
Japan
Kumamoto prefecture

topic:
Tea
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Stoneware
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Hagi ware
Ceramics

content: Japan

content: Shodai ware tea bowl in Irabo style

title_sort: SHODAI WARE TEA BOWL IN IRABO STYLE

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Shodai ware tea bowl in Irabo style


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: 1, 1

label: Label

content: Whistler lithographs are identifid by "C" numbers as described in The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998). This is print C19, only state.

content: To 1903

content: Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London, to 1903 [1]

content: From 1903 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Thomas Robert Way in 1903 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record. See also, Original Whistler List, Lithographs, pg. 26, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Whistler's Nudes (April 21, 2002 to January 5, 2003)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: woman

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Print

content: Ink on paper

content: H x W: 26 x 16.5 cm (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Way, Thomas Robert

content: United States

label: Title

content: Study

title_sort: STUDY

title: Study


content: 305 BCE-14 CE

label: Period

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty or Roman Period

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 40, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt (January 28, 2023 to 2025)

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: mosaic glass

content: glass

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)

content: Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: On View

content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 20: A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: H (overall): 2.5 cm (1 in)

name:
Dattari, Giovanni
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Mosaic glass
Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)
Ancient Egyptian Art
Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

room: Gallery 20

building: Freer

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Bead, cylindrical; longitudinal bore

title_sort: BEAD, CYLINDRICAL; LONGITUDINAL BORE

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Bead, cylindrical; longitudinal bore


label: Date

label: School/Tradition

content: Mewar school

label: Description

content: Krishna embraces his father in the upper left corner then proceeds on a palanquin with the Pandava brothers, led by an elephant and followed by musicians. Ladies pay homage to the procession from balconies overhead.

content: Ari K. Bohman Behran, Mumbai and London (1909-2000) [1]

content: Rani Sunita Pitamber, Mumbai or London [2]

content: To 1972

content: James K. Ivory, New York, New York, purchased from Rani Sunita Pitamber at unknown date [3]

content: From 1972 to 2001

content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), purchased from James Ivory in New York City in November 1972 [4]

content: From 2001 to 2018

content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001

content: From 2018

content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim

content: Notes:

content: [1] Date of ownership is unknown. See note 3.

content: [2] Date of ownership is unknown. See note 3.

content: [3] James K. Ivory, a filmmaker, was “sort of a semi-dealer” on the side. Mr. Benkaim purchased the painting from Mr. Ivory in New York City, where the filmmaker kept “bunches of paintings in his apartment.” Considering that Mr. Ivory was a collector who sold to friends and acquaintances from an apartment filled with paintings, it seems quite likely that the painting was out of India prior to September 1972.

content: According to Catherine Glynn Benkaim, May 23-24, 2016, James Ivory purchased this painting from Rani Sunita Pitambar, the Rani of Pitambar. The rani acquired the painting from Bohman Behran in either Bombay or London. Bohman Behran arrived in London in 1948 and worked at the Royal London Hospital of Homeopathy until 1951. From the 1960s until the late 1990s, he was an allopathic and homeopathic doctor practicing in Harley Street and Camden Town, where he presumably sold or gave the painting to the Rani. See http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/08/guardianobituaries2.

content: [4] According to information from Catherine Glynn Benkaim.

content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection

content: Ardeshir Kavasji Boman-Behram (1909-2000)

content: Rani Sunita Pitamber (Indian, 20th century)

content: James K. Ivory (born 1928)

content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim

content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)

content: Mewar, Rajasthan state, India

content: Krishna

content: elephant

content: Bhagavata Purana

content: India

content: palanquin

content: South Asian and Himalayan Art

content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection

content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (painting): 20 × 39.4 cm (7 7/8 × 15 1/2 in)

content: H x W (overall): 23.2 × 42.5 cm (9 1/8 × 16 3/4 in)

name:
Benkaim, Ralph and Catherine
Benkaim, Catherine Glynn
Ivory, James K.
Pitamber, Sunita
Boman-Behram, Ardeshir Kavasji

place:
Rajasthan state
Mewar
India

topic:
South Asian and Himalayan Art
Art
Krishna
Animals
Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
Bhagavata Purana
Elephants
Palanquin

content: India

content: Krishna bids farewell, folio from a Bhagavata Purana

title_sort: KRISHNA BIDS FAREWELL, FOLIO FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image


content: 16th century

label: Period

content: Ming dynasty

label: Artist

content: Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century)

content: Zhe School

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1012, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: eagle

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Hanging scroll mounted on panel; ink and color on silk

content: H x W (image): 101.4 x 63.3 cm (39 15/16 x 24 15/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Lai-Yuan & Company

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Eagles
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

label: Title

content: Two Hawks on a Withered Bough

title_sort: TWO HAWKS ON A WITHERED BOUGH

title: Two Hawks on a Withered Bough


label: Date

content: 305 BCE-14 CE

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty or Roman Period

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Egypt

content: glass

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)

content: Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Unclassified

content: Glass

content: H: 1.7 cm (11/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Glass
Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)
Ancient Egyptian Art
Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Fragment; pierced

title_sort: FRAGMENT; PIERCED

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Fragment; pierced


content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

content: To 1896

content: Frederick Keppel and Co., London, England, and New York to 1896 [1]

content: From 1896 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in 1896 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Plates, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Whistler Etchings and Copper Plates (May 15, 1968 to February 22, 1971)

content: Centennial Exhibition, East Corridor (February 25, 1956 to July 10, 1958)

content: Frederick Keppel and Co. (1868-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: metal

content: copper

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Tool and Equipment

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Copper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 10.2 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Frederick Keppel and Co.

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art
Metal-work

content: United States

object_type:
Tools and equipment
Copper (metal)

content: Etching plate: Millbank

title_sort: ETCHING PLATE: MILLBANK

label: Screen Image

title: Etching plate: Millbank


content: 14th century

label: Period

content: Yuan dynasty

label: Artist

content: Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760)

label: Label

content: To learn more about this and similar objects, visit http://www.asia.si.edu/SongYuan/default.asp Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy.

label: Provenance

content: To 1911

content: Kita Toranosuke, Kyoto, to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Kita Toranosuke in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 891, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Buddhist Art (May 9, 1993 to August 9, 2011)

content: Chinese Calligraphy and Ceramics (April 18, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

content: Chinese Figure Painting (September 17, 1973 to January 3, 1975)

content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Kita Toranosuke (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

content: Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: baimiao style

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: deva

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink on silk

content: H x W (image): 127.3 x 44.2 cm (50 1/8 x 17 3/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Kita, Toranosuke

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Baimiao style
Chinese Art
Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
Deva

content: China

content: Portrait of a Deva King 提婆王圖

title_sort: PORTRAIT OF A DEVA KING 提婆王圖

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Portrait of a Deva King 提婆王圖


label: Date

content: 1550-1196 BCE

content: New Kingdom

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: glass

content: New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: Diam: 0.5 cm (3/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Glass
Ancient Egyptian Art
New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

label: Title

content: Bead

title_sort: BEAD

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Bead


content: ca. 1539-945 BCE

content: New Kingdom to Early Third Intermediate Period

label: Description

content: Fragment of a vase.

content: Clay: soft, buff.

content: Glaze: turquoise blue, partly discolored.

content: Decoration: papyrus leaves in low relief.

content: To 1908

content: Ali Arabi, Giza, Egypt, to 1908 [1]

content: From 1908 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ali Arabi, in Cairo, in May, 1908 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1736, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Ali Arabi (ca. 1840-1932) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Egypt

content: faience

content: New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

content: Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1075 - 656 BCE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Vessel

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Faience (glazed composition)

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D: 6.2 x 4.5 x 1.8 cm (2 7/16 x 1 3/4 x 11/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Arabi, Ali

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Fragment of a cup

title_sort: FRAGMENT OF A CUP

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Fragment of a cup


content: 1550-1169 BCE

label: Period

content: New Kingdom

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Egypt

content: glass

content: New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: Diam: 0.6 cm (1/4 in)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Bead

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: 5, 8

label: Label

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G79, state not provided.

content: To 1896

content: Frederick Keppel and Co., London, England, and New York to 1896 [1]

content: From 1896 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in 1896 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Plates, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object is part of a group (consisting of a set of sixteen plates, as well as one impression of each plate) that was purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in January 1896.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: An American in London: Whistler and the Thames (May 3 to August 17, 2014)

content: Frederick Keppel and Co. (1868-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

label: Topic

content: etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Print

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W: 10.2 x 12.6 cm (4 x 4 15/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art
Etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: The Little Pool

title_sort: THE LITTLE POOL

title: The Little Pool


content: 18th - 19th century

content: Edo period

label: Description

content: Tea caddy, hidasuki type.

content: Clay: fired grayish brown.

content: Glaze: none.

content: Decoration: intersecting grass-lines bordered by areas where the paste has fired red.

content: To 1898

content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [1]

content: From 1898 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 714, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Japan

content: lacquer

content: ceramic

content: ivory

content: Bizen ware

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: tea

content: Japan

content: stoneware

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Vessel

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Stoneware with rice-straw traces; ivory lid, cipher in red lacquer

label: Dimensions

content: H x Diam: 7.7 × 5.4 cm (3 1/16 × 2 1/8 in)

label: Style

content: Bizen ware

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Matsuki, Bunkio

place:
Imbe
Japan
Okayama prefecture

topic:
Tea
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Bizen ware
Ivory
Stoneware
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Lacquer
Ceramics

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Tea caddy with connoisseur's cipher

title_sort: TEA CADDY WITH CONNOISSEUR'S CIPHER

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Tea caddy with connoisseur's cipher


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Provenance

content: Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]

content: To 1906

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY, to 1906 [2]

content: From 1906 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in 1906 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Wood Engravings, pg. 3, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also see Curatorial Remarks 1, 2, and 3 in the the object record.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] 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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)

content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: United States

content: engraving (printing process)

content: bird

content: child

content: woman

content: boat

content: United States

content: American Art

content: illustration

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Print

content: Wood engraving; ink on paper

content: H x W: 14.5 x 11.9 cm (5 11/16 x 4 11/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Boats and boating
Art
Animals
American Art
Illustration
Engraving (printing process)
Birds
Children
Woman

content: United States

content: An Illustration to The Major's Daughter

title_sort: AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE MAJOR'S DAUGHTER

label: Thumbnail Image

title: An Illustration to The Major's Daughter


content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

content: To 1905

content: Thomas Way Sr. (1827-1915), London, or Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London, to 1905 [1]

content: From 1905 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Thomas Way Sr. or Thomas Robert Way in 1905 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Drawings, pg. 12, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Thomas Way Sr. and his son, Thomas Robert Way, were lithographers who worked closely with Whistler on several of his projects. They helped with the printing of his etchings, as well as the printing of Whistler’s promotional materials. Both Thomas Way Sr. and Thomas Robert Way owned many Whistler works. Thomas Way Sr. acquired several of these works at the time of Whistler’s bankruptcy, and he passed some of them on to his son (see The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, ed. Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp, On-line Edition, People, biographies of Thomas Way and Thomas Robert Way; http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence).

content: Charles Lang Freer acquired many Whistler pieces from the Ways. However, museum records do not always specify whether it was the younger or elder Way who was the source of a particular object. Further, archival sources indicate that the junior Way sometimes acted on behalf of his father: whilst negotiating the sale of his own Whistler works to C.L. Freer, he would concurrently negotiate the sale of some of his father’s Whistler works to Freer. In cases where it is unclear whether it was the junior or senior Way who actually owned a piece acquired by C.L. Freer, the provenance record will simply state that the object was purchased from “Thomas Way Sr. or Thomas Robert Way.”

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's "Filthy Lucre" (May 16, 2015 to June 4, 2017)

content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Artist (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)

content: American Paintings: James McNeill Whistler (November 11, 1976 to March 18, 1981)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

label: Topic

content: portrait

content: woman

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Drawing

content: Chalk and pastel on brown paper

content: H x W: 26.6 x 17.5 cm (10 1/2 x 6 7/8 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art
Portraits
Woman

content: United States

content: Study

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Study


content: 305 BCE-19 CE

label: Period

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty to Roman Period

label: Description

content: Fragment of an inlay; fish design. Mosaic technique: columnar plates. Scales in white and brown in a gray and white matrix.

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 20, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Egypt

content: mosaic glass

content: glass

content: fish

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)

content: Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

content: H (overall): 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Fishes
Mosaic glass
Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)
Ancient Egyptian Art
Roman Period (30 BCE - 395 CE)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

label: Title

content: Fragment of an inlay with fish design

title_sort: FRAGMENT OF AN INLAY WITH FISH DESIGN

title: Fragment of an inlay with fish design


label: Date

content: 12th-14th century

content: Goryeo period

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 997, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Korea

content: casting

content: gilding

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Goryeo period (918 - 1392)

content: Korea

content: Korean Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Bronze

content: H x W: 3.5 x 2.7 cm (1 3/8 x 1 1/16 in)

topic:
Gilding
Bronze
Goryeo period (918 - 1392)
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Sculpture
Korean Art
Metal-work

content: Korea

content: Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image


label: Court

content: Malwa Court

label: School/Tradition

content: Central Indian school

label: Label

content: A ragamala (garland of ragas, or musical modes) is a unique genre of painting that may be termed "pictorial music". It represents a series of musical modes that correspond to emotional states generally associated with specific times of day or seasons of the year. Musical modes may be male ragas or female raginis, and each is expressed in terms of human love.

content: This painting of the Malasri ragini depicts Malasri plucking petals from a lotus flower while her attendant maids fan her with a fly whisk. The Hindi couplet written on the reverse says that Malasri and her maids smell of lotus blossoms and dream of their lovers even in the daytime. The Malasri ragini is a musical mode suitable for all hours.

content: The painting is intended to evoke the emotional state aroused during a performance of the Malasri ragini,when one experiences an intense longing for union with the beloved- a metaphor for union with god.

content: Unidentified individual, Delhi, India, method of acquisition unknown [1]

content: Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), purchased from Unidentified individual in Delhi, India [2]

content: From 1924

content: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, purchased from Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Ananda Coomaraswamy, “Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Part V, Rajput Painting” [book], (Cambridge: Harvard university Press, 1926), p. 71. The publication indicates that this Ragamala series was previously in the collection of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Coomaraswamy’s collection “originally contained twenty-three of the series, and these were obtained [by him] in Delhi [in 1913] […].”

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was an art historian, curator, and collector of South Asian art. Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Coomaraswamy grew up in England where he received a doctorate in geology. Coomaraswamy was active as a geologist until 1910, when he became interested in the arts of Ceylon and India. He became deeply committed to introducing Western audiences to Indian art. In 1917, he accepted a curatorial post at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he remained until his death.

content: [3] See Commission of Fine Arts list of objects recommended for purchase, dated October 8, 1924, marked as approved. Object is described as, “Indian Painting, Malasri Ragini,” Rajput, about 1675.”

content: The object is part of the museum’s Freer Gallery of Art Collection.

content: Research updated July 22, 2024

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)

content: South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)

content: The Arts of South Asia (May 13, 1985 to December 2, 1985)

content: Hindu and Buddhist Art (January 28, 1981 to September 24, 1981)

content: Indian Art (January 1, 1963 to January 28, 1981)

content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Art, Gallery 8 (July 15, 1958 to January 1, 1963)

content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings, Gallery 7 (January 10, 1945 to October 2, 1947)

content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings, Gallery 4 (May 5, 1933 to January 9, 1945)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Persian Art (March 14, 1931 to May 5, 1933)

content: Near Eastern Pottery and Persian Painting (May 2, 1923 to March 14, 1931)

content: Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947)

content: Madhya Pradesh state, Malwa, India

label: Topic

content: tree

content: music

content: lotus

content: ragamala

content: India

content: South Asian and Himalayan Art

content: heroine

content: longing

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

label: Data Source

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

content: Painting

content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

content: H x W: 19.7 x 14.8 cm (7 3/4 x 5 13/16 in)

label: Style

content: Malwa style

place:
Madhya Pradesh state
Malwa
India

topic:
Trees
South Asian and Himalayan Art
Art
Heroine
Longing
Music
Ragamala
Lotus

content: India

content: Malashri Ragini from a Ragmala series

title_sort: MALASHRI RAGINI FROM A RAGMALA SERIES

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Malashri Ragini from a Ragmala series


label: Date

label: Period

content: Eastern Han dynasty

label: Provenance

content: To 1917

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]

content: From 1917 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1257, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Eastern Han dynasty (25 - 220)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Mirror

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze

label: Dimensions

content: Diam x D: 14 x 1.2 cm (5 1/2 x 1/2 in)

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Sculpture
Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
Chinese Art
Metal-work

content: China

label: Title

content: Mirror

title_sort: MIRROR

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Mirror


content: 13th-14th century

content: Goryeo period

content: To 1916

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1005, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Korea

label: Topic

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Goryeo period (918 - 1392)

content: Korea

content: Korean Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Tool and Equipment

content: Bronze

content: H x W x D: 22.3 x 3.4 x 2.8 cm (8 3/4 x 1 5/16 x 1 1/8 in)

topic:
Bronze
Goryeo period (918 - 1392)
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Korean Art
Metal-work

content: Korea

content: Spoon

title_sort: SPOON

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Spoon


content: late 18th- early 19th century

content: Edo period

label: Artist

content: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806)

label: School/Tradition

content: Ukiyo-e

label: Label

content: Utamaro is known mainly for his sumptuous woodblock prints portraying women. Moonlight Revelry, a masterpiece among his few paintings, once formed a set of three on the themes of "Snow," "Moon," and "Flower." This painting shows the spacious salon of an elite pleasure house located in Shinagawa, once a suburb of Edo (now Tokyo), the center of the shogun's government. Here Utamaro used principles of European perspective, which had begun to be incorporated into Japanese art during the eighteenth century, to depict a dramatic architectural setting while maintaining the elevated viewpoint of traditional Japanese painting.

content: This painting illustrates on a grand scale many of the Japanese ideas that transformed James McNeill Whistler's work. The elevated viewpoint and such compositional formulas as a woman leaning against a railing facing the bay appear in The Balcony (see F1892.23). Whistler's paintings also reveal his study of Japanese color composition.

content: To 1903

content: Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906), Paris and Tokyo, to 1903 [1]

content: From 1903 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the Hayashi sale, through Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, in 1903 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 1, undated folder sheet note, in the object record.See also, Original Kakemono List, L. 295, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered (April 8 to July 9, 2017)

content: Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

content: The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Paintings and Prints (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)

content: Whistler & Japan (May 14, 1995 to January 1, 1996)

content: Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)

content: Bicentennial Exhibition: Japanese Art (December 15, 1975 to November 10, 1976)

content: Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)

content: Japanese Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)

content: Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

content: Ukiyo-e Exhibition (August 7, 1961 to January 1, 1963)

content: Hayashi Tadamasa 林 忠正? (1853-1906) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: music

content: moon

content: ocean

content: boat

content: koto

content: shamisen

content: Japan

content: ukiyo-e

content: kakemono

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on paper

content: H x W (image): 147.4 x 321 cm (58 1/16 x 126 3/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Hayashi, Tadamasa

topic:
Boats and boating
Art
Moon
Outer space
Ukiyo-e
Musical instruments
Charles Lang Freer collection
Shamisen
Music
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Ocean
Kakemono

content: Japan

content: Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami

title_sort: MOONLIGHT REVELRY AT DOZO SAGAMI

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami


label: Date

content: 12th-13th century

label: Period

content: Goryeo period

label: Provenance

content: Reportedly excavated at Gaeseong, Hwanghaebuk-do province, Korea [1]

content: To 1917

content: Mr. S. Yamanaka (Yamanaka & Company), Kyoto, to 1917 [2]

content: From 1917 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Mr. S. Yamanaka, through Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [3]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] According to information provided by Yamanaka and Company. See Curatorial Remark 4, H.E. Buckman, 1964, in the object record. See also, F1917.306.2a-f, Curatorial Remark 1, Louise Cort, July 6, 2010, in the object record.

content: [2] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1271, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. For further details regarding the gift, see F1917.306.2a-f, Curatorial Remark 2, Louise Cort, July 8, 2010, in the object record.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] 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.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Korea

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Goryeo period (918 - 1392)

content: Korea

content: Korean Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Tool and Equipment

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze

label: Dimensions

content: H: 27.1 cm (10 11/16 in)

content: Korea

label: Title

content: Chopsticks

title_sort: CHOPSTICKS

title: Chopsticks


content: 4th-3rd century BCE

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period

content: To 1915

content: Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), New York, NY, to 1915 [1]

content: From 1915 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Abel William Bahr, New York, in 1915 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 697, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) was a collector and dealer born in Shanghai, China. After he left Shanghai in 1910, he lived, at various points in time, in London, Montreal, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He established a gallery in New York City in 1920.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Bronze

content: H x W: 5.6 x 1.3 cm (2 3/16 x 1/2 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Bahr, Abel William

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Sculpture
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
Chinese Art
Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)
Metal-work

content: China

content: Garment hook (daigou)

title_sort: GARMENT HOOK (DAIGOU)

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Garment hook (daigou)


content: Mid-summer (May-June), 1672 (renzi [year] zhongxia [mid-summer]

content: Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign

label: Artist

content: Sheng Nian 盛年 (active 17th century) painted the template followed by lacquer specialists

label: Description

content: Coromandel screen in twelve sections. Depicits 166 figures and has an inscription with 3 seals. The back covered with inscription.Two seals. Decoration: inlaid in colored lacquers and gold.

label: Marks

content: Three seals on the inscription on the pictorial face of the screen: 1. Sheng Nian 盛 年 2. dayou shi 大有氏 3. wumensanren 吳門散人。 Sheng Nian is intaglio and the other two are relief. Wumensanren is an oval shaped seal at the right of the inscription and the other two are squares below the signature line on the left.

label: Inscriptions

content: An inscription in the upper right corner of the first panel identifies the theme as "Hangong chunxiao ("Spring Morning in the Palaces of Han") and gives the date, second month of Summer in the "renzi" year of the Kangxi period (i.e., May 27-June 24, 1672). A considerably longer inscription covering the entire reverse surface of the twelve panels records that the screen was commissioned as a gift by Huang Jingji in 1672.

label: Label

content: Titled Spring Morning in the Han Palace, this carved polychrome lacquer, or kuancai, screen was made in China in 1672. The scene unfolds from right to left, showcasing imperial ladies, their young sons, and servants living in the sequestered women’s quarters of an imaginary Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) palace. However, the architecture and material culture depicted draw on features from many eras, including the period during which the screen was made.

content: Artists decorated this screen by carving the design into a black lacquer surface and filling the voids with bright colors and gilding to create a dramatic polychrome effect. This Chinese technique of lacquer work is known as kuancai (pronounced “kwan tsai”). By the seventeenth century, it was a popular method for making grand screens commissioned as gifts to honor and flatter a male recipient. The screens were displayed in Chinese homes and often paired with elegant hardwood chairs, such as those on display here.

content: In the 1670s, when kuancai polychrome screens were newly fashionable in China, Europeans began what would become a long tradition of importing them as luxuries. Traders routed the screens through ports along the southeast Coromandel Coast of India and via Banten on Java, Indonesia. This gave rise to the misbegotten names “Coromandel screens” and “Bantam work,” both of which have obscured the true source of the screens and have erroneously created the impression they were primarily made as export goods. By rejecting the common English names and returning to the Chinese word kuancai, this exhibition focuses attention on the screens’ origin and significance in China.

content: Kong Yiweng 孔翊翁 [1]

content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), method of acquisition unknown [2]

content: Sale, New York, American Art Association, "Arms and armor of old Japan" February 8-10, 1906, lot 30 [3]

content: Charles Lang Freer, purchased at American Art Association sale [4]

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer [5]

content: Notes:

content: [1] According to the inscriptions on the screen, the work was made for Kong Yiweng

content: 孔翊翁, a sobriquet for a man identified as Kong Zhenlai 孔貞來. He was a descendent of Confucius and served in the Qing dynasty as a government official with service in both military and civil posts. Yunan was one of many provinces in which he served. Huang Jingji, a fellow townsman and admirer of Kong Yiweng, wrote the encomium on the reverse of the screen. It is plausible that Huang Jingji was involved in the commission to create the screen to present as a gift to Kong, likely for an advanced-age birthday. It is unclear if the screen was made as a gift from only Huang, or more likely from several unnamed people.

content: [2] A former Buddhist monk, Matsuki Bunkio (1867-1940) moved to the United States in 1888 and settled near Boston and restyled himself as Bunkio Matsuki. He became a dealer in Japanese antiquities, opening a gallery along Boston's fashionable Boylston Street. See note 1.

content: [3] See American Art Association, "Arms and Armor of Old Japan" [auction catalogue] (New York, February 8-10, 1906), lot 304. The object is described as "A superb work of art, incomparable in its importance. It was executed in 1672 (11th year of Kang- Hi) [sic; should be Kang-hsi] as a gift to the imperial Prince Yoku-wo-ko [sic; in Chinese Kong Yiweng, and he was not a prince], from his friends and admirers on his return to the capital from the governorship of the Province of Un-nan [Yunan]."

content: [4] See voucher No. 12, where the object is described as "One Chinese Palace Screen, 12 fold, No. 304 of Matsuki Catalogue of 1906," from Box 114, Folder 2, Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, copy in object file.

content: [5] 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.

content: Research completed on August 11, 2022.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen (July 15, 2023 to January 28, 2024)

content: Bicentennial Exhibition: Chinese Art (December 5, 1975 to November 10, 1976)

content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Kong Yiweng 孔翊翁

content: China

content: embroidering

content: lacquering

content: lacquer

content: deer

content: dancing

content: Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

content: Kangxi reign (1662 - 1722)

content: qin

content: boat

content: architecture

content: fungus-of-immortality

content: China

content: flower viewing

content: mirror

content: musician

content: Chinese Art

content: equestrian

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: kuancai

content: Coromandel

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Furniture and Furnishing

content: Black lacquer on prepared wooden core; carved recesses filled with polychrome pigments and gold (kuancai)

content: H x W x D: 216.5 x 50.1 x 606.5 cm (85 1/4 x 19 3/4 x 238 3/4 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Matsuki, Bunkio
Kong, Yiweng

topic:
Boats and boating
Art
Architecture
Horsemen and horsewomen
Chinese Art
Fungus-of-immortality
Kuancai
Charles Lang Freer collection
Embroidery
Animals
Coromandel
Kangxi reign (1662 - 1722)
Flower viewing
Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
Lacquering
Dance
Musicians

content: China

object_type: Furniture Mirrors Furnishings

content: Twelve-panel screen depicting “Spring Morning in the Han Palace” with inscription; encomium on the reverse

title_sort: TWELVE-PANEL SCREEN DEPICTING “SPRING MORNING IN THE HAN PALACE” WITH INSCRIPTION; ENCOMIUM ON THE REVERSE

label: Thumbnail Image