Ladle, with a seven-lobed bowl

Object Details

• Provenance

  1930

  Yamanaka and Company, New York 1930 [1]

  From 1930

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, New York in 1930 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Silk Road Exhibition (August 18 to December 25, 2011)

  Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)

  Special Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (August 7, 1946 to January 7, 1947)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1944 (November 15, 1944 to May 6, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, Pottery, and Painting (March 23, 1944 to May 2, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Metalwork, 1943 (October 4, 1943 to March 23, 1944)

  Untitled Exhibition, Shahnama and Chinese Art (March 24, 1930 to May 5, 1933)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 700s

• Name

  Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Hammering, Silver, Art, Punching, Chinese Art, Tang dynasty (618 - 907), Chasing, Engraving (incising), Metal-work

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment