Buddhist tablet
Object Details
- Provenance
- 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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yung Pao Chai (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Dated 574 CE
- Period
- Period of Division
- Accession Number
- F1909.284
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Stone
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall): 44.1 x 24.6 x 8.7 cm (17 3/8 x 9 11/16 x 3 7/16 in)
- Origin
- China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- stone
- Buddhism
- Period of Division (220 - 589)
- forgery
- China
- lettering
- Chinese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1909.284
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye363d77401-cf9c-4762-b2ee-44d92e5ff7b6
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