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Creator:
Cox, John Hadley, b. 1913  Search this
Extent:
105 Lantern slides (approximate count)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Lantern slides
Place:
Changsha (Hunan Sheng, China)
China -- Hunan Province -- Changsha
Date:
circa 1936-1939
Scope and Contents:
Period latern slides taken in the mid to late 1930's pertaining to objects in Mr. Cox's collection, namely ceramics, bronzes, lacquer and figures found at archaeological sites in Changsha, Hunan province, dating primarily from the Zhou and Han Dynasties and from the Warring States period. At a later date, a 5 minute 16mm film of the annual Dragon Boat Festival, shot in Changsha, Hunan province, in 1935 was added to this collection by the donor. The film was converted into both Beta and VHS cassette formats.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged into 16 series: Series 1: Tombs & grave at Changsha (Hunan Province), 1936-1937 Series 2: Changsha Exhibition (Yale, 1939) Series 3: Objects from the same Chu Tomb, Changsha Series 4: Bronze vessels Series 5: Bronze objects Series 6: Bronze mirrors Series 7: Bronze object Series 8: Chu pottery Series 9: Han and later ceramics Series 10: Chu wooden "Zhenmushou" Series 11: Chu wooden burial figures Series 12: Other Chu wooden pieces Series 13: Chu lacquer pieces Series 14: Lacquer pattern Series 15: Others Series 16: Chu silk manuscript
Biographical / Historical:
John Hadley Cox (b. 1913) was a collector of Chinese archaeological ceramic, pottery and bronze vessels, predominantly from the Ch'angsha region of Hunan Province, South Central China. Upon graduating from Yale University in 1935, he spent two years teaching at Yale University's Yale-in-China program in Changsha. In 1991, Mr.Cox also donated 106 potsherds of Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese origin to the Freer Gallery Study Collection. Mr. Cox also left numerous items of his collection to the art gallery of his alma mater.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Topic:
Archaeology -- China -- Antiquities  Search this
Ceramics -- China  Search this
Pottery -- China  Search this
Bronzes, Chinese  Search this
Lacquer and lacquering -- China  Search this
Genre/Form:
Lantern slides
Citation:
John Hadley Cox Archaeological Study Collection. FSA.A1991.07. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Identifier:
FSA.A1991.07
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3cf40e4f0-b950-4835-8d4e-f97581d8a6b5
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-fsa-a1991-07