- Provenance
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To 1909
Yung Pao Chai, Beijing, to 1909 [1]From 1909 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yung Pao Chai in 1909 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 142, pg. 56, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Accession List, Collections Management office. 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. 18, Yung Pao Chai may have been Yongbaozhai, a shop established in the antique district of Liulichang in 1884.
[2] See note 1.
[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.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Yung Pao Chai (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Published References
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- Chang Qing. Genuine or Forged: Methods of Identifying Forgeries of Chinese Buddhist Sculptures. vol. 36 Washington and Ann Arbor. p. 88, fig. 4.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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