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Record of Charles Lang Freer's purchase of 13 Chinese paintings from the Pang Collection while in San Francisco

Catalog Data

Creator:
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this
Names:
Smithsonian Institution  Search this
Pang Yuanji, 1864-1949  Search this
Collection Creator:
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this
Extent:
11 Sheets
Type:
Archival materials
Sheets
Vouchers
Place:
Shanghai (China)
Date:
May 1919
Scope and Contents:
Freer visited Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in April of 1915. During his visit, he met with the dealers C.T. Loo and Pang Tszu-chen who had brought paintings from the collection of Shanghai collector Pang Laichen (Pang Yuanji). Freer purchased 13 of the paintings, 2 of which were transfered to his friends, Eugene and Agnes Meyer.
庞赞臣 庞元济 庞莱臣 卢芹斋
Freer collection numbers: F1915.16; F1915.17; F1915.18; F1915.19; F1915.20; F1915.21; F1915.22; F1915.23; F1915.24; F1915.25; F1915.26.
Arrangement:
Freer's purchase vouchers are generally organized by date of purchase.
Local Numbers:
FSA A.01 06.5.2.1915.05.03
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Topic:
Antiquities  Search this
Painting  Search this
Art, Chinese  Search this
Genre/Form:
Vouchers
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.
Identifier:
FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 06.5.2.1915.05.03
See more items in:
Charles Lang Freer Papers
Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 6: Financial Materials / 6.5: Vouchers / 6.5.2: Financial materials - Vouchers - Art vouchers / 1915
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3663bbc39-fa4f-4560-b971-e533074981dd
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref3455