H x W x D: 27.2 x 4.3 x 0.8 cm (10 11/16 x 1 11/16 x 5/16 in)
Type:
Weapon and Armament
Origin:
Inner Mongolia/Ordos, China
Date:
206 BCE-220 CE
Period:
Possibly Han dynasty
Provenance:
To 1916
Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), London, to 1916 [1]
From 1916 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Abel William Bahr, London, in 1916 [2]
From 1920
The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 584, pg. 132, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) was a collector and dealer born in Shanghai, China. After he left Shanghai in 1910, he lived, at various points in time, in London, Montreal, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He established a gallery in New York City in 1920.
[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.
