H x W x D: 87.3 x 116.5 x 66 cm (34 3/8 x 45 7/8 x 26 in)
Type:
Furniture and Furnishing
Origin:
China
Date:
1736-1795
Period:
Qing dynasty
Description:
Purchased from American Art Association (sale of Herbert G. Squiers Collection). For price, see S.I. 343, original Miscellaneous List.
Original attribution: Chinese. Ch'ien Lung. See further, S.I. 343, Appendix IV, and Miscellaneous Envelope File.
The Envelope file contained no further information, and has now been destroyed.
Added Ch'ing, reign of Ch'ien Lung (1736-1795).
This seems to fit the Daoguang period.
Provenance:
To 1911
Herbert Goldsmith Squiers (1859-1911), New York, NY, to 1911 [1]
From 1912 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, April 9-12, 1912 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 343, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] 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.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Previous custodian or owner:
Herbert Goldsmith Squiers (1859-1911) (C.L. Freer source)
