- Provenance
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To 1918
Wang Jiantang, Shanghai to 1918 [1]From 1918 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Wang Jiantang, in New York, in 1918 [2]From 1920
The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1342, pg. 309, 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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Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Wang Jiantang (C.L. Freer source) late 19th-early 20th century
- Description
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Squared, hollow cylinder of the type ts'ung [cong] 琮; tall form with wide projecting collar at both ends; irregularly bored leaving median ridge; mottled olive brown, olive green, and dull cream, with dark blue-green spots on one collar; extensive cream frosting of incipient disintegration; decoration: channeled and incised grooves, corner ridges, and circles; surface worn smooth; incision on upper corner and toolmarks. (Slightly chipped.)
Acquired with box and stand, now lost.
- Published References
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- J. Keith Wilson, Jingmin Zhang. Jades for Life and Death. .
- Grace Dunham Guest, Archibald Gibson Wenley. Annotated Outlines of the History of Chinese Arts. Washington, 1949. p. 6.
- Sherman Lee. A History of Far Eastern Art. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964. p. 44, fig. 37.
- Archibald Gibson Wenley. Early Chinese Jade. vol. 63, no. 5 Washington, November 1946. p. 346.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Jades for Life and Death
- Google Cultural Institute
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