Blue/gray silk crepe with no decoration. This bag is missing its drawstring. The interior fabric is the same as the exterior fabric. There is a thin white silk rope attached to the top of the bag, through which the drawstring would have been attached. There is a light yellow/brown discoloration throughout the bag. This bag has no hard circular bottom panel, but there is a small paper insert.
Provenance:
?-1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), method of acquisition unknown [1]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
Notes:
[1] This bag once held a ceramic owned by Charles Lang Freer but was separated from that ceramic at an unknown time for an unknown reason, most likely after Freer's collection was brought to Washington, DC (see note 2).
[2] 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 of Art.
