H x W x D: 5 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm (1 15/16 x 3/8 x 5/16 in)
Culture:
Liangzhu culture, ca. 3300-ca. 2250 BCE Search this
Type:
Jewelry and Ornament
Origin:
Lake Tai region, China
Date:
ca. 3300-2250 BCE
Period:
Late Neolithic period
Description:
Ornament; long, four sided pendant with a blunt end and a small perforated projection at top; translucent gray mottled with orange brown and a deep area of opaque dull brown showing decomposition. (Slightly chipped.)
Provenance:
To 1914
Huang Zhonghui (circa 1870-after 1923), to 1914 [1]
From 1914 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from HHuang Zhonghui, in New York, in 1914 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Reserved Miscellaneous List, R. 5687, 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.
