Ornamental tile in form of qilin or dragon

Object Details

• Description

  Lion's head utensil--fragment.

  Clay: coarse, hard, light-buff.

  Glaze: gray, streaked with light blue, green, and white; uneven flow.

• Provenance

  To 1914

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1914 [1]

  From 1914 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1914 [2]

  From 1920

  The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 2420, 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

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Guangdong province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Architectural Element

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1910s, 1640s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China, Guangdong province

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Guangdong ware, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics, Dragon, Qilin

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Architectural elements