Pendant in the form of a tiger
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Object Details
- Provenance
- Excavated from Henan province, Xinzheng, in 1923 [1]
- From 1923
- Freer Gallery of Art, acquired by Carl Whiting Bishop [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Excavated by Carl Whiting Bishop and Archibald Gibson Wenley as part of the Freer Gallery China Expedition. See item X444, p. 70 in “Part IV, List 2: A Complete List of Objects in the Bishop Collection” from Sarah L. Newmeyer’s Interim Report (1976), copy in the Carl Whiting Bishop Collection file, Collections Management Office. See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. Also refer to Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office. The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection on August 8, 1974.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- ca. 600-476 BCE
- Period
- Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period
- Accession Number
- F1979.36
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Jewelry and Ornament
- Medium
- Jade (nephrite)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3.8 × 1.7 × 0.7 cm (1 1/2 × 11/16 × 1/4 in)
- Origin
- Xinzheng, purportedly excavated at Henan province, 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
- jade
- nephrite
- tiger
- Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
- Spring and Autumn period (770 - 476 BCE)
- China
- Chinese Art
- Carl Whiting Bishop collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1979.36
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3fe4fc5d2-2604-4154-9ddc-590e92454c4a
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