H x W x D: 5.7 × 5.7 × 1.5 cm (2 1/4 × 2 1/4 × 9/16 in)
Type:
Weapon and Armament
Origin:
China
Date:
475-221 BCE
Period:
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period
Provenance:
Reportedly excavated at Xi’an, Shaanxi [1]
Duanfang (1861–1911) [2]
To 1919
You Xiaoxi (late 19th–early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1919 [3]
1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1919 [4]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [5]
Notes:
[1] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record states: “Said to have been in the collection of the Viceroy Tuan Fang [Duanfang] and to have been excavated in Sianfu [Xi’an], Shensi [Shaanxi].” However, note that Curatorial Remark 5, William B. Trousdale, 1964, in the object record, states: “This piece is not illustrated in the catalogue of the Tuan Fang [Duanfang] collection (T'ao chai ku yu t’u [Taozhai guyu tu], Shanghai, 1936).”
[2] See note 1.
[3] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1420, p. 337, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[4] See note 3.
[5] 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
Exhibition History:
Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)
Previous custodian or owner:
Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911)
You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)
