label: Date

label: Period

content: Period of Division, Northern Qi dynasty

content: This mythical, composite animal and the similar one on the opposite side of the doorway are guardian-demons whose repellent ugliness was believed to avert evil. They were created as pillar bases, or architectural supports, inside the Buddhist cave-temple of the northern Chinese site known as Xiangtangshan, which straddles the border of Hebei and Henan provinces. The presence of these guardians beneath a row of Buddha images in Cave 7 at Xiangtangshan signaled their role as protectors of Buddhist Law.

content: Cave 7 originally contained at least twenty-four similar sculptures, but they proved so appealing to Japanese and Western collectors that most of them were removed in the early twentieth century for sale. Many museums bought pairs of the guardian figures. Charles Lang Freer purchased only one (in 1916), but the Freer Gallery of Art purchased an additional two in the 1950s, and the gallery was later given two more in the 1970s. Each sculpture is slightly different.

content: The specific site of these pieces has been clearly known in the West since the 1950s, but when Mr. Freer made his purchase in 1916, he was unaware of where it came from in China and was told the work was slightly earlier than it actually is.

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 Miscellaneous List, S.I. 927, pg. 206, 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: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in New Light (April 14, 2002 to September 8, 2003)

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

content: Untitled Exhibition, North Corridor (November 20, 1969 to December 11, 1984)

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

content: Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 17 (November 17, 1955 to January 1, 1963)

content: Stone Sculpture, Gallery 17, 1923 (May 2, 1923 to November 17, 1955)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Asian Sculpture, North Corridor (May 2, 1923 to October 28, 1955)

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Northern Xiangtangshan, Middle Cave, Hebei province, China

content: stone

content: Buddhism

content: demon

content: Period of Division (220 - 589)

content: Northern dynasties (386 - 581)

content: Northern Qi dynasty (550 - 577)

content: lotus

content: temple

content: cave

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: monster

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Sculpture

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Limestone freestanding sculpture

content: H x W x D: 88.4 x 47.3 x 28.5 cm (34 13/16 x 18 5/8 x 11 1/4 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Lai-Yuan & Company

place:
China
Hebei province
Northern Xiangtangshan
Middle Cave

topic:
Period of Division (220 - 589)
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Temple
Chinese Art
Demon
Monsters
Northern Qi dynasty (550 - 577)
Northern dynasties (386 - 581)
Lotus
Stone

content: China

content: Kneeling winged monster

title_sort: KNEELING WINGED MONSTER

label: High-resolution JPEG

Kneeling winged monster

type: 3D mesh

title: Kneeling winged monster (Full resolution 3D mesh, obj, scale in mm)

category: Full resolution

UNITS: mm

FILE_TYPE: zip

MODEL_FILE_TYPE: obj

title: Kneeling winged monster (Low resolution 3D mesh, obj, scale in mm)

category: Low resolution

title: Kneeling winged monster (Low resolution 3D mesh, gltf, scale in mm)

MODEL_FILE_TYPE: gltf

title: Kneeling winged monster (Low resolution 3D mesh, glb, scale in mm)

FILE_TYPE: glb

MODEL_FILE_TYPE: glb

title: Kneeling winged monster (Low resolution 3D mesh, glb, scale in m)

UNITS: m

title: Kneeling winged monster (iOS AR model 3D mesh, usdz, scale in m)

category: iOS AR model

FILE_TYPE: usdz

MODEL_FILE_TYPE: usdz

title: Kneeling winged monster


unitCode: FSG

type: edanmdm

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: 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

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

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

label: Dimensions

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

name:
Dattari, Giovanni
Freer, Charles Lang

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

type: Continent

content: Africa

type: Country

content: Egypt

object_type: Ornaments Jewelry

label: Title

content: Bead

unit_code: FSG

title_sort: BEAD

type: Images

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead


label: Date

label: Period

content: Momoyama period

label: Provenance

content: To 1906

content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1906 [1]

content: From 1906 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1906 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Screen List, L. 119, pg. 35, 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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Painting the Classics: Japanese Screens (November 10, 2018 to October 14, 2019)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Screens (October 3, 1947 to November 10, 1955)

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)

content: woman

content: man

content: boat

content: bridge

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Color over gold on paper

content: H x W: 168.9 x 366.9 cm (66 1/2 x 144 7/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Yamanaka and Co.

topic:
Bridges
Charles Lang Freer collection
Boats and boating
Art
Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
Japanese Art
Woman

content: Japan

content: Ukifune, from the Tale of Genji

title_sort: UKIFUNE, FROM THE TALE OF GENJI

title: Ukifune, from the Tale of Genji


content: 1550-1196 BCE

content: New Kingdom

content: To 1909

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Glass

content: H: 2.5 cm (1 in)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Bead

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Bead


content: 305-30 BCE

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty

content: To 1909

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: mosaic glass

content: glass

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

content: Diam: 0.8 cm (5/16 in)

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

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Bead, double disk (fastened with red wax)

title_sort: BEAD, DOUBLE DISK (FASTENED WITH RED WAX)

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


label: Date

content: 1368-1644 and 1127-1279

label: Period

content: Ming dynasty with Southern Song dynasty components

label: Artist

content: Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century)

content: To 1911

content: Li Wenqing (circa 1869-1931), Shanghai to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Li Wenqing, China, in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Album List, pg. 40, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Setting the Bar: Arts of the Song dynasty (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

content: Children at Play in Chinese Painting (November 14, 2009 to May 23, 2010)

content: Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)

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

content: Ancient Chinese Paintings, Sculptures, and Jade Objects from the Collection formed by Charles Lang Freer (November 15 to December 08, 1917)

content: Li Wenqing 李文卿 (ca. 1869-1931) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: playing

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: child

content: garden

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W: 25.3 x 26.9 cm (9 15/16 x 10 9/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Li, Wenqing

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Playing
Chinese Art
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Children
Gardens

content: China

label: Title

content: Children playing in a garden 明 庭院嬰戯圖 冊頁

title_sort: CHILDREN PLAYING IN A GARDEN 明 庭院嬰戯圖 冊頁

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Children playing in a garden 明 庭院嬰戯圖 冊頁


content: 1st century B.C. or

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: 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 42, 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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

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

label: Previous custodian or owner

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Syria

content: mosaic glass

content: glass

content: Syria

content: Ancient Near Eastern 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

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: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: H (overall): 3.6 cm (1 7/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Mosaic glass

culture:
Middle Easterners
Syrians

room: Gallery 20

building: Freer

content: Vase pendant: lateral bore in the neck

title_sort: VASE PENDANT: LATERAL BORE IN THE NECK

title: Vase pendant: lateral bore in the neck


content: Edo period

content: Attributed by accompanying document to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

label: Description

content: Raku ware, unknown workshop, style of Hon'ami Koetsu

content: Cylindrical tea bowl

content: Brown lacquer repair

content: Clay: soft, grayish, Raku type

content: Glaze: mingled brick-red and greenish gray. Red Raku glaze.

label: Label

content: The paper label formerly attached to the box lid for this tall cylindrical bowl relates that it was one of a group of five similar bowls made by Koetsu. It had belonged to the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family that ruled Japan throughout the Edo period, and it had been given to its owner by an unspecified head of the Omote Senke Tea School. A deep crack in the rim that probably occurred during firing has been repaired with red-tinted lacquer.

content: To 1899

content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1899 [1]

content: From 1899 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 629, 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: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Boxed In: Japanese Ceramics and Their Storage Boxes (September 23, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

content: Special Exhibition of Japanese Pottery (October 29, 1971 to October 31, 1971)

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Kyoto, Japan

label: Topic

content: lacquer

content: ceramic

content: Raku ware

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: tea

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: lacquer repair

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Vessel

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Earthenware with red ochre slip under clear lead glaze; lacquer repair

content: H x Diam: 9.4 × 10.2 cm (3 11/16 × 4 in)

label: Style

content: Raku ware, unknown workshop

place: Kyoto Japan

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

content: Japan

content: Cylindrical tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop

title_sort: CYLINDRICAL TEA BOWL, UNKNOWN RAKU WARE WORKSHOP

label: High-resolution JPEG


label: Date

content: ca. 1806-1808

label: Period

content: Edo period

label: Artist

content: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

label: Provenance

content: To 1907

content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1907 [1]

content: From 1907 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1907 [2]

content: From 1920

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

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 608, pg. 159, 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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Painting the Classics: Japanese Scrolls and Beyond (November 17, 2018 to October 20, 2019)

content: Hokusai (October 25, 2005 to May 14, 2006)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: poet

content: Daoist Immortals

content: Japan

content: ukiyo-e

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (image): 131.2 × 53.3 cm (51 5/8 × 21 in)

topic:
Daoist Immortals
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Ukiyo-e
Poets

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Six immortals of poetry

title_sort: SIX IMMORTALS OF POETRY

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Six immortals of poetry


content: 8th century BCE

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty

label: Description

content: Chinese

content: Early Eastern Chou, 8th century B.C.

content: Ceremonial vessel of the type p'ou. Broken and repaired. Wood stand.

content: Surface: reddish-brown patina, almost covered with incrustations of malachite green and white and brown.

content: Decoration: in very low relief.

content: To 1911

content: S. Abe, Kyoto, Japan to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from S. Abe in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 212, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: S. Abe (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: China

content: Chinese 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: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Vessel

content: Bronze

content: H x W: 7.1 x 12.6 cm (2 13/16 x 4 15/16 in)

name:
Abe, S.
Freer, Charles Lang

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

content: China

content: Ritual vessel (pou)

title_sort: RITUAL VESSEL (POU)

title: Ritual vessel (pou)


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

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 G27 state 3 of 4.

label: Provenance

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

content: To 1890

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1890 [2]

content: From 1890 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1890 [3]

content: From 1920

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

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 2, Freer Folder Sheet notes 2 and 3, in the object record.

content: [2] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, 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: 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: 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: 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)

content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: woman

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Print

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W (image): 20.8 x 14.8 cm (8 3/16 x 5 13/16 in)

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

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

content: United States

content: La Vieille aux Loques

title_sort: LA VIEILLE AUX LOQUES

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: La Vieille aux Loques


content: 206 BCE-220 CE

label: Period

content: Han dynasty

label: Description

content: Ring.

content: Surface: gray and green patina over gilt.

content: To 1911

content: Ta Ge Shang, Beijing and Shanghai, to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ta Ge Shang in 1911 [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. 223, 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: Ta Ge Shang (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: casting

content: gilding

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

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: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Bronze with gilding

label: Dimensions

content: Diam: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Ge Shang, Ta

topic:
Gilding
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Sculpture
Chinese Art
Metal-work
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

label: Title

content: Ring

title_sort: RING

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Ring


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

content: A young woman standing before a curtain, holding a hat; signed with the butterfly at lower right.

label: Signatures

content: Black butterfly in lower right quadrant

label: Paper/Support

content: On cold-pressed, wove paper mounted overall to board. Graphite crop line along bottom edge.

content: To 1902

content: Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London, to 1902 [1]

content: From 1902 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Henry Studdy Theobald in 1902 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Purchases from Thoebald, pg. 6, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Voucher No. 1, August 1902,

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)

content: Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-garde in Victorian London, 1883 (November 20, 2003 to April 4, 2004)

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

content: Whistler Pastels and Water Colors (July 1 to July 31, 1974)

content: Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 10 and 11 (February 25, 1956 to November 3, 1959)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Paintings and Drawings (December 14, 1955 to February 25, 1956)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Works of Whistler (September 22, 1947 to April 11, 1955)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Watercolors, Oil Paintings, and Pastels (January 20, 1944 to October 13, 1947)

content: Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)

content: Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)

content: American Paintings, Pastels, and Water Colors, and Drawings. J.A.McN. Whistler (May 2, 1923 to January 7, 1924)

content: Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler (May 1905)

content: Third Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung (1888)

content: "Notes"—"Harmonies"—"Nocturnes" (May 1884)

content: Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: United States

label: Topic

content: crop marks

content: mounting

content: bone black

content: Prussian blue

content: burnt sienna

content: raw sienna

content: iron oxide red

content: vermilion

content: zinc white

content: Mars pigment

content: yellow ocher

content: cadmium sulfide

content: woman

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Whistler in Watercolor

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

content: Watercolor on paper

content: H x W: 25.2 x 16.3 cm (9 15/16 x 6 7/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Theobald, Henry Studdy

topic:
Crop marks
Art
Iron oxide red
Bone black
Zinc white
Cadmium sulfide
Vermilion
Mounting
Yellow ocher
Charles Lang Freer collection
Mars pigment
American Art
Raw sienna
Prussian blue
Woman
Burnt sienna

content: United States

content: Harmony in Violet and Amber

title_sort: HARMONY IN VIOLET AND AMBER

title: Harmony in Violet and Amber


label: Period

content: Edo period

content: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

label: Provenance

content: To 1904

content: Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1904 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi 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 Album List, pg. 1, Sketches by Hokusai, S.I. 4, 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: Hokusai Bicentennial Exhibition (March 30, 1960 to August 16, 1961)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: shamisen

content: Japan

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: Data Source

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (sheet and image): 24.9 x 21.1 cm (9 13/16 x 8 5/16 in)

name:
Kobayashi, Bunshichi
Freer, Charles Lang

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

content: Japan

content: Tuning the Samisen

title_sort: TUNING THE SAMISEN

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Tuning the Samisen


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: 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: 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: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: H: 0.9 cm (3/8 in)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

label: Title

content: Bead

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead


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 G210 state 3 of 3.

content: To 1889

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1889 [1]

content: From 1889 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1889 [2]

content: From 1920

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: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-garde in Victorian London, 1883 (November 20, 2003 to April 4, 2004)

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: United States

label: Topic

content: drypoint

content: landscape

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

content: Print

content: Drypoint; ink on paper

content: H x W (overall): 9.3 x 21.2 cm (3 11/16 x 8 3/8 in)

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

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Landscapes
Art
American Art
Drypoint

content: United States

content: Little Salute

title_sort: LITTLE SALUTE

title: Little Salute


content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

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 G14 state 1 of 4.

label: Provenance

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: [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)

content: Off the Beaten Path: Early Works by James McNeill Whistler (September 28, 2013 to September 28, 2014)

content: Young Whistler: Early Prints and the "French Set" (August 28, 2004 to March 13, 2005)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Print

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W: 20.8 x 15.7 cm (8 3/16 x 6 3/16 in)

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

content: United States

content: Street at Saverne

title_sort: STREET AT SAVERNE

title: Street at Saverne


label: Date

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

content: 4, 3

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 G218 state 5 of 9.

content: Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, 1897 [1]

content: From 1897 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd in 1897 [2]

content: From 1920

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

content: Notes:

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: Whistler in Venice: The First Set of Etchings (July 1, 2001 to January 13, 2002)

content: Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd. (active 1842-1972) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: pigeon

content: cathedral

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

content: Print

label: Medium

content: Etching and drypoint; ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 25.2 x 18.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 1/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd.

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

content: United States

label: Title

content: The Piazzetta

title_sort: THE PIAZZETTA

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: The Piazzetta


label: Period

content: Mamluk period

content: Found at Fustat, Egypt [1]

content: From at least 1968

content: George Scanlon (1925-2014), Fustat, Egypt [2]

content: From ? to 1992

content: Dorothy Shepherd Payer (1916-1992), possibly purchased from George Scanlon [3]

content: Estate of Dorothy Shepherd Payer

content: From 1992 to 1993

content: Mary Slusser (1918-2017), Washington, DC, by inheritance from the estate of her sister Dorothy Shepherd Payer [4]

content: From 1993

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mary Slusser, Washington, DC [5]

content: Notes:

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

content: [2] Dr. George Scanlon visited Egypt beginning in 1950. He conducted archaeological excavations in Fustat between 1964 and 1980 through nine seasons. It is possible that he acquired the Fustat sherds during this time period. The card found with the collection states, “ex-collection of George Scanlon 1968, $125 acq'd in Cairo." It is unclear whether George Scanlon acquired these sherds in 1968 or whether the 1968 year refers to when Dorothy Shepherd Payer bought them.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] See Deed of Gift, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

content: [5] See note 4.

content: Freer Study Collection

content: George Scanlon (1925-2014)

content: Dorothy Shepherd Payer (1916-1992)

content: Estate of Dorothy Shepherd Payer

content: Dr. Mary Shepherd Slusser (1918-2017)

label: Origin

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: ceramic

content: Sgraffito ware

content: Mamluk period (1250 - 1517)

content: Egypt

content: earthenware

content: Arts of the Islamic World

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Mary Slusser in memory of Dorothy Shepherd Payer

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

content: Vessel

content: Earthenware

content: H x W: 10.8 x 8.9 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in)

label: Style

content: Sgraffito ware

name:
Estate of Dorothy Shepherd Payer
Payer, Dorothy Shepherd
Scanlon, George
Slusser, Mary Shepherd

topic:
Sgraffito ware
Art
Mamluk period (1250 - 1517)
Pottery
Arts of the Islamic World
Ceramics

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

title_sort: SHERD, RED BODY, WHITE SLIP, GREEN GLAZE


content: 17th century

content: Qing dynasty

label: Artist

content: Follower of Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559)

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: Loon Gu Sai, Beijing, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Loon Gu Sai, Beijing, in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 629, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), Loon Gu Sai was possibly Lunguzhai, a store in the antiques district of Liulichang.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Loon Gu Sai (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: landscape

content: Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

content: mountain

content: bridge

content: lake

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk panel

content: H x W (image): 120.1 × 49.8 cm (47 5/16 × 19 5/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Sai, Loon Gu

topic:
Mountains
Bridges
Charles Lang Freer collection
Landscapes
Art
Chinese Art
Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
Lakes

content: China

content: Landscape: a lake, cliffs, and trees

title_sort: LANDSCAPE: A LAKE, CLIFFS, AND TREES

title: Landscape: a lake, cliffs, and trees


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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

content: H x Diam: 0.9 × 0.5 cm (3/8 × 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; Opaque black matrix, with dots of blue-green

title_sort: BEAD; OPAQUE BLACK MATRIX, WITH DOTS OF BLUE-GREEN

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG


content: 305 BCE-19 CE

label: Period

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty to Roman Period

label: Description

content: Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays. Columnar rectangular rod mosaic. Dark blue, red, yellow, and white matrix material.

content: To 1909

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 18, 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: 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: Related Online Resources

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

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: W (overall): 4.7 cm (1 7/8 in)

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

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Fragment of a bar

title_sort: FRAGMENT OF A BAR

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Fragment of a bar


content: 8th-9th century

content: Fragment of a vessel.

content: Technique: blown, and decorated with painted bands and fused sections of dipped rods. Rare. Translucent blue matrix; decorations in yellow.

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: Exhibition History

content: Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation (December 4, 2004 to July 17, 2005)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Iraq?

content: mosaic glass

content: glass

content: Iraq

content: Arts of the Islamic World

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

content: Vessel

content: Glass

content: H x W x D: 4.1 x 4.2 x 0.8 cm (1 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 5/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Mosaic glass
Arts of the Islamic World

culture: Muslims Iraqis

content: Fragment of a vessel

title_sort: FRAGMENT OF A VESSEL

title: Fragment of a vessel


label: Date

content: ca. 3000-ca. 1700 BCE

content: Late Neolithic period

content: Thin perforated disc of the type pi [bi] 璧; translucent, mottled light golden browns and pale yellowish green; outer edge uneven and much thinner than at perforation; several dark strata cracks.

content: Acquired with a box, now lost.

content: (Jenny F. So, Jade Project Database, March 24, 2009) Possibly late Neolithic. Coarse grained material, light golden brown and pale yellowish green. Unevenly round, uneven thickness, edge thinner than center at hole. Surface repolished smooth; convex profile of hole also suggests repolishing of biconical hole.

content: To 1917

content: Tonying and Company, New York to 1917 [1]

content: From 1917 to 1919

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

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1069, pg. 238, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. By at least 1917, Tonying and Company maintained business locations in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, London, and New York, NY.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

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

content: Ancient Chinese Jade (September 4, 1980 to March 6, 1981)

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

content: Tonying and Company 通運公司 (established 1902) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: jade

content: nephrite

content: Late Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: On View

content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 19: Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Jades for Life and Death

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Type

content: Ceremonial Object

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Jade (nephrite)

label: Dimensions

content: Diam x D: 16.8 x 0.7 cm (6 5/8 x 1/4 in)

content: Diam (hole): 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in)

date:
BCE 3000s
BCE 1000s

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Tonying and Company

room: Gallery 19

content: China

label: Title

content: Disk (bi 璧)

title_sort: DISK (BI 璧)

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Disk (bi 璧)


content: 206 BCE-220 CE

label: Period

content: Han dynasty

label: Description

content: Fang-hu with curved walls and a lid in the shape of a truncated pyramid. There is a small loop on the cover. Animal masks in relief, holding movable rings, appear on two sides below the neck. The sides of the vessel are decorated with a frieze of abstract, swirling designs painted between narrow bands of red pigment. A red band also decorates the narrow foot.

content: To 1916

content: C. T. Loo, Lai-Yuan & Co., New York, to April 1, 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1968

content: Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), Washington, DC, and Mt. Kisco, NY, purchased from C. T. Loo, Lai-Yuan & Co. on April 1, 1916 [2]

content: From 1968

content: Freer Gallery of Art, given by Agnes E. Meyer in 1968 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See C. T. Loo, Lai-Yuan & Co.’s invoice issued to Mrs. Eugene Meyer and dated February 29, 1916, where the bronze is listed as “Square bronze vase with cover, painted with polychrome floral designs,” copy in object file.

content: A stamped note on the invoice states that the payment for the bronze was received by Loo on April 1, 1916.

content: The invoice includes three other bronzes (see records for F1968. 32a-b, F1968.33, and F1968.34a-b) which with F1968.35a-b form a group probably made as a set to be used as mingqi (funerary objects).

content: The four vessels reportedly came from Changsha, Hunan province, however, there is no certainty of their provenance, see Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition exh. cat. (Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1971), pp. 28-29 (ill.) and Diane M. Nelson, “Bronze ‘Ming-ch’i’ Vessels with Painted Decoration: A Regional Study in Han Pictorialism,” Artibus Asiae 42, 2/3 (1980), pp. 147-8.

content: [2] See C. T. Loo, Lai-Yuan & Co.’s invoice, cited in note 1.

content: [3] See Agnes E. Meyer’s Deed of Gift, where the object is listed as no. 21 in the document’s Annex, dated July 24, 1967, copy in object file. The object was accessioned to the Freer Gallery’s collection in 1968.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

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

content: Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

content: Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition (September 25, 1971 to October 2, 1972)

content: C. T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

content: Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: casting

content: painting (image-making)

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: wine

content: China

content: Chinese Art

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

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

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

content: Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

content: Vessel

content: Bronze

content: H x W: 17.8 x 10.9 cm (7 x 4 5/16 in)

name:
C. T. Loo & Company
Meyer, Eugene and Agnes E.

topic:
Bronze
Wine and wine making
Art
Sculpture
Chinese Art
Painting (image-making)
Metal-work
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

room: Gallery 18

content: China

content: Lidded square ritual wine vessel (fanghu) with painted decoration

title_sort: LIDDED SQUARE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (FANGHU) WITH PAINTED DECORATION

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image


content: 16th century

content: Ming dynasty

label: Artist

content: Follower of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century)

content: Formerly attributed to Zhang Shunmin (active late 11th-early 12th century)

label: School/Tradition

content: Zhe School

label: Label

content: The poor woodcutter Zhu Maichen loved classical literature. Every day he trudged to market carrying bundles of firewood on a shoulder pole while reciting favorite passages and poems. Zhu’s

content: wife, who helped carry the sticks, was annoyed by his incessant chanting and frequently complained. He just continued more loudly, until one day she could not abide it any longer and asked

content: for a divorce.

content: Some years later, Zhu went to the capital and came to the attention of Emperor Wu, whom he impressed with his knowledge of ancient texts. Elevated to a succession of offices, he even returned to his old home as Grand Warden—much to the chagrin of his destitute former wife, who killed herself shortly afterward from despair. Recalling the hardships she had endured, Zhu assumed the cost of her funeral expenses.

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Pang Yuanji (1864-1949), Shanghai, China, to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pang Yuanji, through Pang Zanchen (1881-1951) and Seaouke Yue (You Xiaoxi) (late 19th-early 20th century), in New York, in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

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

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1133, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, P'ang Catalogue: Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by P'ang Lai Ch'en, no. 35.

content: [2] According to Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pg. 23 and pg. 37, note 118.

content: Larsen explains that Pang Zanchen (the younger brother of Pang Yuanji) and Seaouke Yue were tasked by Pang Yuanji with bringing his paintings to New York to show them to Charles Lang Freer. See also, Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1133, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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: Old Tales Retold: Narrative in Chinese Painting (April 20 to October 20, 2013)

content: Work and Commerce: Everyday Life in Chinese Painting (June 19, 2004 to January 17, 2005)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864-1949) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: work

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

content: Painting

content: Hanging scroll mounted on panel; ink on silk

content: H x W (image): 158.7 x 97.6 cm (62 1/2 x 38 7/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Pang, Yuanji

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

content: China

content: The Studious Woodcutter Zhu Maichen

title_sort: THE STUDIOUS WOODCUTTER ZHU MAICHEN

label: Thumbnail Image

title: The Studious Woodcutter Zhu Maichen


label: Date

content: 770 BCE-220 CE

label: Period

content: Eastern Zhou to Han dynasty

content: To 1915

content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1915 [1]

content: From 1915 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1915 [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 Voucher No. 23, December 1915, S.I. 655, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also see the folder for F1915.327. 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: 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

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: animal

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: mask

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: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 5.8 x 5.4 cm (2 5/16 x 2 1/8 in)

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Animals
Sculpture
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
Chinese Art
Masks
Metal-work
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

label: Title

content: Mask and ring

title_sort: MASK AND RING

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Mask and ring


content: 206 BCE-220 CE

content: Han dynasty

label: Provenance

content: To 1911

content: Ta Ge Shang, Beijing and Shanghai, to 1911 [1]]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ta Ge Shang in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 223, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Ta Ge Shang (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

label: Topic

content: casting

content: gilding

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Bronze with gilding

content: Diam: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in)

content: China

content: Ring

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Ring


label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Label

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "K" numbers as assigned in Edward Kennedy's catalogue, The Etched Work of Whistler, (New York: Grolier Club, 1910; and subsequent editions). This print is K27, second state of two.

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 G38 state 2 of 2.

content: To 1888

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1888 [1]

content: From 1888 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1888 [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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

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: wine

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

content: Print

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W (overall): 8.4 x 5.7 cm (3 5/16 x 2 1/4 in)

topic:
Wine and wine making
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art
Etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: The Wine-Glass

title_sort: THE WINE-GLASS

title: The Wine-Glass


label: Date

content: 12th-13th century

label: Period

content: Goryeo period

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: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

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: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Type

content: Tool and Equipment

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze

content: H: 25.3 cm (9 15/16 in)

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

content: Korea

content: Chopsticks

title_sort: CHOPSTICKS

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Chopsticks


content: 1550-1196 BCE

content: New Kingdom

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: mosaic glass

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

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

content: H: 2.1 cm (13/16 in)

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

content: Africa

content: Egypt

label: Title

content: Bead; one end broken

title_sort: BEAD; ONE END BROKEN

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Bead; one end broken


content: Edo period

label: Artist

content: Furuyama Moroshige 古山師重 (ca. 1678-1698)

content: To 1902

content: Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1902 [1]

content: From 1902 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1902 [2]

content: From 1920

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

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Panel List, L. 24, pg. 6, 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: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: child

content: garden

content: Japan

content: ukiyo-e

content: kakemono

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W: 36 x 38.7 cm (14 3/16 x 15 1/4 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Ukiyo-e
Children
Gardens
Kakemono

content: Japan

content: Garden; interior and seated girl

title_sort: GARDEN; INTERIOR AND SEATED GIRL

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Garden; interior and seated girl


label: Date

label: Period

content: Edo period

content: To 1916

content: Yamanaka & Company, 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. 193, 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: 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

content: floral patterns

content: brocading

content: weft patterning

content: silk (fiber)

content: Buddhism

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Noh

content: Japan

content: monk

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Costume and Textile

content: Silk

content: H x W: 205.9 x 111.2 cm (81 1/16 x 43 3/4 in)

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

culture: Buddhists Japanese

content: Japan

object_type: Costume Textiles

content: Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe

title_sort: BUDDHIST MONK'S MANTLE, REFASHIONED FROM KARAORI NOH ROBE


content: Tang dynasty

label: Provenance

content: To 1919

content: You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1919 [1]

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1919 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1442, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

label: Topic

content: casting

content: gilding

content: metal

content: bronze

content: lion

content: Tang dynasty (618 - 907)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Sculpture

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Bronze with gilding

content: H x W: 7.3 x 14.1 cm (2 7/8 x 5 9/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
You, Xiaoxi

topic:
Gilding
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Cats
Art
Animals
Sculpture
Chinese Art
Tang dynasty (618 - 907)
Metal-work

content: China

content: Fitting in the form of a leaping lion

title_sort: FITTING IN THE FORM OF A LEAPING LION

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Fitting in the form of a leaping lion


content: Edo period or Meiji era

label: Artist

content: Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀 (1807-1873)

content: To 1904

content: Bolton Coit Brown (1864-1936), Woodstock, NY, and New York to 1904 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bolton Coit Brown in 1904 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1226, pg. 21-B, 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: Bolton Coit Brown (1864-1936) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: wood

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

content: warrior

content: Japan

content: Japanese 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

content: Tool and Equipment

content: Wood

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D: 26.6 x 39.5 x 1.7 cm (10 1/2 x 15 9/16 x 11/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Brown, Bolton Coit

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Warrior
Art
Wood
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Woodblock print: four designs of warriors; reverse: group of fans and individual signature and seals

title_sort: WOODBLOCK PRINT: FOUR DESIGNS OF WARRIORS; REVERSE: GROUP OF FANS AND INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURE AND SEALS

label: High-resolution TIFF


label: Date

content: mid 18th century

label: Period

content: Edo period

content: To 1902

content: Samuel Colman (1832-1920), New York, NY, and Newport, RI, to 1902 [1]

content: From 1902 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Samuel Colman Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, March 19-22, 1902 [2]

content: From 1920

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

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Reserved Textile List, R. 68, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Samuel Colman was collecting Asian objects by at least 1880 (see F1902.86, Curatorial Remark 5, Louise Cort, April 20, 2007, in the object record).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Samuel Colman (1832-1920)

content: American Art Association (established 1883) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Nishijin district, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

content: floral patterns

content: weft patterning

content: resist dyeing

content: silk (fiber)

content: flower

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Noh

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Costume and Textile

content: Silk with gilt-paper thread

content: H x W: 250 x 38.5 cm (98 7/16 x 15 3/16 in)

name:
American Art Association
Freer, Charles Lang
Colman, Samuel

place:
Kyoto
Japan
Nishijin district
Kyoto prefecture

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Silk (fiber)
Noh
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Flowers
Resist dyeing
Floral patterns
Weft patterning

content: Japan

content: Noh robe fragment (karaori 唐織) 唐織

title_sort: NOH ROBE FRAGMENT (KARAORI 唐織) 唐織

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Noh robe fragment (karaori 唐織) 唐織


content: 15th-16th century

content: Ming dynasty

content: Formerly attributed to Zhang Xuan (active early-mid-8th century)

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Li Wenqing (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

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

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1238, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, LVC Catalogue, 1915, No. 7.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Li Wenqing 李文卿 (ca. 1869-1931) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: lion

content: playing

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: child

content: puppetry

content: China

content: rock

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W: 159.3 x 87.4 cm (62 11/16 x 34 7/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Cats
Art
Animals
Playing
Chinese Art
Puppets
Rocks
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Children

content: China

content: Two boys playing with the puppet of a lion

title_sort: TWO BOYS PLAYING WITH THE PUPPET OF A LION


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 G339 state 2 of 2.

content: To 1903

content: Obach & Co., London, to 1903 [1]

content: From 1903 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1903 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Voucher No. 10, December 1903, 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: Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: flower

content: commerce

content: architecture

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

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W: 17.7 x 6.6 cm (6 15/16 x 2 5/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Obach & Co.

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

content: United States

content: Flower Market, Brussels

title_sort: FLOWER MARKET, BRUSSELS

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Flower Market, Brussels


label: Date

content: 17th century

label: Period

content: Qing dynasty

content: Formerly attributed to Zhong Wenxiu (11th century)

content: To 1917

content: Li Wenqing (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1917 [1]

content: From 1917 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Li Wenqing, in 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 Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1166, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Voucher No. 18, December 1916.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: landscape

content: winter

content: water

content: Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

content: mountain

content: river

content: man

content: boat

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (image): 125.4 × 62.2 cm (49 3/8 × 24 1/2 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Li, Wenqing

topic:
Water
Mountains
Charles Lang Freer collection
Landscapes
Boats and boating
Art
Winter
Chinese Art
Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
Men
Rivers

content: China

label: Title

content: Visiting a Friend by Boat

title_sort: VISITING A FRIEND BY BOAT

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Visiting a Friend by Boat


content: Ming dynasty

content: Formerly attributed to Liu Songnian (傳)劉松年 (ca. 1150-after 1225)

content: Braving the waves and flying on cranes, immortals arrive at a Daoist palace atop a bank of clouds and skyscraping peaks to pay homage to Jen, the God of Infinity. Because immortals were believed to prefer living in high buildings, Daoist architecture is rife with towers and pavilions. The blazing light behind the building marks its extraordinary status as an immortal palace.

label: Provenance

content: To 1911

content: Riu Cheng Chai, Beijing, to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Riu Cheng Chai in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 714, 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: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Daoism in the Arts in China (December 16, 2006 to July 1, 2007)

content: Riu Cheng Chai (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: Daoism

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: mountain

content: Daoist Immortals

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Painting

content: Ink on silk

content: H x W (overall): 28.2 x 669 cm (11 1/8 x 263 3/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Riu Cheng Chai

topic:
Mountains
Daoist Immortals
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Daoism
Chinese Art
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

content: Daoist Immortals in the mountains

title_sort: DAOIST IMMORTALS IN THE MOUNTAINS

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Daoist Immortals in the mountains


content: 305-30 BCE

content: Possibly Ptolemaic Dynasty

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 29, 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.

label: Collection

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)

content: Egypt

content: glass

content: Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 - 30 BCE)

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

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

label: Medium

content: Glass

content: H (overall): 4 cm (1 9/16 in)

name:
Dattari, Giovanni
Freer, Charles Lang

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

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Lozenge-shaped tablet for inlay

title_sort: LOZENGE-SHAPED TABLET FOR INLAY

title: Lozenge-shaped tablet for inlay


label: Date

content: 1550-1307 BCE

label: Period

content: New Kingdom

content: To 1909

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 46, 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

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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

label: See more items in

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

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

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

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

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

content: Africa

content: Egypt

label: Title

content: Bead pendant with eyelet

title_sort: BEAD PENDANT WITH EYELET

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead pendant with eyelet


content: early 18th century

content: Mughal dynasty

label: Court

content: Mughal Court

label: School/Tradition

content: Mughal school

label: Provenance

content: Before 1890

content: Ownership information unknown

content: By 1890-1907

content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), method of acquisition unknown [1]

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna [2]

content: From 1920

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

content: Notes:

content: [1] See “Catalogue of Indo-Persian Pictures and Manuscripts, Principally of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries by Native Artists, Collected by H. B. Hanna” [book], (London: Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells, 1890).

content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) was an officer in the British military and a collector of Indian paintings. Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, Hanna’s family later moved to London, where he was baptized in 1851. Beginning in 1857, Hanna served as a commissioned officer in the Indian Army and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1889. After his retirement, he resided in London and Petersfield with his younger sisters. According to Hanna, he began collecting Indian paintings around the time of the Indian Rebellion (1857-1859). See letter from Henry Bathurst Hanna to Charles Lang Freer, dated April 10, 1908 [sic, 1907], p. 3, Box 17, Folder No. 10, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

content: [2] See Charles Lang Freer art voucher no. 24, “For a collection of Indo-Persian pictures and manuscripts” from H. B. Hanna of Heathmere, Petersfield, Hants. [Hampshire], England, from October 1907, Box 114, Folder No. 12, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., copy in object file.

content: Research updated April 19, 2024

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: India

label: Topic

content: music

content: dancing

content: drum

content: Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)

content: cymbal

content: India

content: princess

content: South Asian and Himalayan Art

content: attendant

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: dancer

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

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

content: Painting

content: Color and gold on paper

content: H x W: 26.8 x 17.7 cm (10 9/16 x 6 15/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Hanna, Henry Bathurst

topic:
South Asian and Himalayan Art
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Drums (Membranophones)
Princess
Music
Cymbal
Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)
Dance
Attendant
Dancer

culture:
Himalayan peoples
South Asians

content: India

content: A Princess entertained by a dancer; attendants and musicians

title_sort: A PRINCESS ENTERTAINED BY A DANCER; ATTENDANTS AND MUSICIANS

label: High-resolution TIFF


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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

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

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Unclassified

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Glass

content: H: 0.9 cm (3/8 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: Minute fragment of mosaic

title_sort: MINUTE FRAGMENT OF MOSAIC

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Minute fragment of mosaic


label: Date

content: 475 BCE-9 CE

label: Period

content: Eastern Zhou or Western Han dynasty, Warring States period

content: Reportedly excavated in Xi’an, Shaanxi [1]

content: Duanfang (1861–1911) [2]

content: To 1919

content: You Xiaoxi (late 19th–early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1919 [3]

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1919 [4]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [5]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record states: “Formerly in the collection of the Viceroy Tuan Fang [Duanfang], and said to have been excavated in Sianfu [Xi’an], Shensi [Shaanxi].”

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1411, p. 332, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [4] See note 3.

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: 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)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911)

content: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: purportedly found at Shaanxi province, Xi'ian, China

content: jade

content: nephrite

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE)

content: Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Jades for Life and Death

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Ceremonial Object

label: Medium

content: Jade (nephrite)

label: Dimensions

content: Diam x D: 11 x 0.5 cm (4 5/16 x 3/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
You, Xiaoxi
Duanfang

place:
Xi'ian
China
purportedly found at Shaanxi province

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
Chinese Art
Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE)
Nephrite
Jade
Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)

content: China

label: Title

content: Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

title_sort: DISK (BI) WITH RAISED UNIFORM CURLS ARRANGED IN A GRID


content: 2nd century

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

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

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

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)

label: Origin

content: Syria

label: Topic

content: glass

content: Syria

content: Ancient Near Eastern Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

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: 0.6 cm (1/4 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Glass

content: Bead

title_sort: BEAD

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead


label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: 3, 1

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 G95, 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: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

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.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: drypoint

content: water

content: boat

content: morning

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Print

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Drypoint; ink on paper

content: H x W: 11.4 x 15.2 cm (4 1/2 x 6 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Frederick Keppel and Co.

topic:
Water
Charles Lang Freer collection
Boats and boating
Art
American Art
Morning
Drypoint

content: United States

content: Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier)

title_sort: BATTERSEA DAWN (CADOGAN PIER)

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier)


label: Date

label: Period

content: Momoyama or Edo period

content: Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

content: To 1903

content: Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Paris, to 1903 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the sale of the Charles Gillot Collection, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, through Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka & Company), in 1904 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Screen List, pg. 24, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] After his death in 1903, a sale of Asian art belonging to French artist Charles Gillot took place in February 1904 at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris. Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka & Company) attended the sale and annotated the sales catalogue (which is now in the Freer and Sackler Library) on Charles Lang Freer's behalf (see F1904.46, Curatorial Remark 5, Louise Cort, July 11, 2001, in the object record). Also, see note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Gillot (1853-1903) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: stork

content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

label: Medium

content: Ink and green tint on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 170.9 x 376.2 cm (67 5/16 x 148 1/8 in)

name:
Gillot, Charles
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Stork

content: Japan

content: Cranes and chrysanthemums

title_sort: CRANES AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

title: Cranes and chrysanthemums


content: 1550-1196 BCE

content: New Kingdom

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, 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: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: glass

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

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: H: 1.4 cm (9/16 in)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

label: Title

content: Bead; bottle form

title_sort: BEAD; BOTTLE FORM

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead; bottle form


content: Dated 534 CE

content: Period of Division

content: To 1913

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1913 [1]

content: From 1913 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1913 [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 Miscellaneous List, S.I. 433, pg. 132, 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: Chinese Art—Stone Sculpture (September 1, 1979 to March 14, 1982)

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

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture (June 2, 1944 to March 13, 1944)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, 1944 (March 13, 1944 to November 14, 1944)

content: Stone Sculpture, Gallery 17, 1923 (May 2, 1923 to November 17, 1955)

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

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: stone

content: Buddhism

content: Period of Division (220 - 589)

content: ushnisha

content: parinirvana

content: China

content: halo

content: Gautama Buddha

content: yaksa

content: lettering

content: abhaya mudra

content: varada mudra

content: Chinese Art

content: attendant

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

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Sculpture

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Stone

content: H x W x D: 81.5 x 73.3 x 16.1 cm (32 1/16 x 28 7/8 x 6 5/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Yamanaka and Co.

topic:
Period of Division (220 - 589)
Yaksa
Art
Chinese Art
Abhaya mudra
Stone
Lettering
Ushnisha
Charles Lang Freer collection
Parinirvana
Varada mudra
Gautama Buddha
Attendant
Halo

culture: Buddhists Chinese

content: China

content: The Buddha Gautama Sakyamni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

title_sort: THE BUDDHA GAUTAMA SAKYAMNI (SHIH-CHIA) AND ATTENDANT DIVINITIES