Object Details
- Previous custodian or owner
- Jun Tsei Tai 戴潤齋 (1911 - 1992)
- C.T. Loo & Company (1914 - 1948)
- Provenance
- To 1947
- Jun Tsei Tai (1911-1992), Shanghai, to February 1947 [1]
- 1947
- C.T. Loo & Company, New York, purchased from Jun Tsei Tai in February 1947 [2]
- From 1947
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C.T. Loo & Company on July 8, 1947 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See C. T. Loo's stockcard no. NYL-7/982: "Bronze hill-censer on a wide spreading foot with three dragons in relief inlaid with gold, silver and various stones. Body decorated with bands of abstract motives in gold, silver with turquoise and rubis. Cover with fine rows of hills with hunting scenes, fighting animals and birds in gold, silver and hard stones inlaid, many stones missing Late Chou," Frank Caro Archive, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, copy in object file. According to an annotation on the stockcard, Loo purchased the bronze from J. T. Tai.
- [2] See C. T. Loo's stockcard cited in note 1.
- [3] See C. T. Loo's invoice, date July 8, 1947, copy in object file.
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- On View
- Freer Gallery 18: Art and Industry: China's Ancient Houma Foundry
- Date
- ca. 2nd century BCE
- Period
- Early Western Han dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1947.15a-b
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Topic
- animal
- landscape
- Daoism
- Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE)
- inlay
- casting
- incense
- China
- Chinese Art
- WWII-era provenance
- Origin
- Henan or Hebei province, China
- Medium
- Bronze with gold, silver, turquoise, and carnelian inlay
- Dimensions
- H x W: 17.9 x 10 cm (7 1/16 x 3 15/16 in)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Metalwork
- Vessel
- Record ID
- fsg_F1947.15a-b
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