Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.01 02.1PangYuanchi
- Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Pang Yuanji, 1864-1949
- Collection Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Topic
- Art, Chinese
- Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Pang Yuanji, 1864-1949
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- Charles Lang Freer Papers
- Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence
- Biographical / Historical
- Charles Lang Freer first visited the Shanghai collector and connoisseur Pang Yuanji in 1911. In subsequent years, Freer purchased some of his finest early Chinese paintings from Pang through intermediary dealers traveling in the US.
- Extent
- 12 Items (letters including envelopes and business card)
- Date
- 1912-1919
- Container
- Box 25, Folder 15
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Letters (correspondence)
- Collection Citation
- Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
- Arrangement
- Organized chronologically under correspondent.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Letters (correspondence)
- Scope and Contents
- Letters dated between 1912 and 1919, discussing Chinese political conditions and the Chinese art market. Pang also introduces Freer to the dealer You Xiaoxi (Yue Seaouke) who frequently acted as intermediary.
- 庞元济 游篠溪 庞莱臣 弗利尔
- Freer collection numbers: F1904.61
- Letters between Charles Lang Freer and Pang Yuanji
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510431462-1503510431547-3
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