- Provenance
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To 1911
Ta Ge Shang, Shanghai, to 1911 [1]From 1911 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ta Ge Shang in 1911 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 276, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[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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Ta Ge Shang (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Published References
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- Chugoku bijutsu [Chinese Art in Western Collections]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1972-1973. vol. 3: pl. 8.
- Roger Fry, Laurence Binyon, Osvald Siren, A. F. Kendrick, Bernard Rackham, W. Perceval Yetts, William W. Winkworth. Chinese Art: An Introductory Review of Painting, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes, Sculpture, Jade, etc. Burlington magazine monographs London. pl. 4b.
- Ludwig Bachhofer. Die Anfange der buddhistischen plastik in China. vol. 10, nos.1/2 Berlin, January - April 1934. pl. l, no. 9.
- Osvald Siren. A History of Early Chinese Art. 4 vols., London, 1929-1930. vol. 3, pl. 47b.
- Osvald Siren. Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century: Over 900 Specimens in Stone, Bronze, Lacquer and Wood, Principally from Northern China. 4 vols., London. vol. 2: pl. 16c.
- Ludwig Bachhofer. A Short History of Chinese Art. New York. pl. 57.
- Osvald Siren. Kinas Konst Under Tre Artusenden. 2 vols., Stockholm, 1942-1943. vol. 1: pl. 107.
- Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 73, vol. 1: p. 170.
- Saburo Matsubara. Chinese Buddhist Sculpture [Chugoku Bukkyo chokokushi kenkyu]: A Study Based on Bronze and Stone Statues other than Works from Cave Temples. Tokyo, 1961-1971. p. 3.
- Grace Dunham Guest, Archibald Gibson Wenley. Annotated Outlines of the History of Chinese Arts. Washington, 1949. p. 7.
- Alexander Coburn Soper. Chinese, Korean and Japanese Bronzes: A Catalogue of the Auriti Collection Donated to IsMEO and Preserved in the Museo Nazionale d'arte Orientale in Rome. Serie orientale Roma, 35 Rome. p. 12.
- Yashiro Yukio. Buddhistic Statues in Gilt Bronze of the Six Dynasties. no. 109 Tokyo, January 1941. p. 16, pl. 7.
- Saburo Matsubara. Seated Buddha Dated 437 A.D. no. 1032 Tokyo. pp. 22-28.
- Mizuno Seiichi. Bronze and Stone Sculpture of China: From the Yin to the Tang dynasty. Tokyo. p. 23, fig. 49.
- Langdon Warner, Joseph Hackin, Osvald Siren, Paul Pelliot. Studies in Chinese Art and Some Indian Influences: Lectures Delivered in Connection with the International Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy of Arts. Exh. cat. London. p. 24, pl. 6, fig. 27.
- Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art handbook. Washington, 1976. p. 35.
- Saburo Matsubara. Study of the Buddhist Sculptures during the Period of Southern Courts in China. vol. 130 Osaka, May 1980. pp. 64-76.
- unknown title. no. 243 Tokyo, August 1986. p. 88.
- Wai-Kam Ho. Three Selected Stone Buddhas. Cleveland, April 1966. p. 93, fig. 25b.
- Thomas Lawton. China's Artistic Legacy. vol. 118, no. 258 London, August 1983. p. 131.
- Saburo Matsubara. North and South in the Style of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. no. 296 Tokyo, November 1974. pp. 134-153.
- Gilded Metals: History, Technology and Conservation. London. p. 150, fig. 8.5.
- Yang Hong. Shih lun nan-pei chao chien chi fu-hsiang fu shih ti chu yao pien hua. no. 6. p. 331.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
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