Mirror

Object Details

• Description

  Mirror. Glossy mottled black and gray patina surface with malachite incrustations in sharply cut low relief. Box.

• Previous custodian or owner

  C.T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

• Provenance

  From at least 1934 to 1935

  C. T. Loo, Paris from at least 1934 [1]

  From 1935

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company, New York on March 23, 1935 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Olov Jansen, "Le style du Houai et ses affinités; notes à propos de quelques objects de la collection David-Weill," Revue des Arts Asiatiques: Annales du Musée Guimet vol. 8, no. 3 (1934), pp. 146, 180, pl. 57, listed as "Collection C. T. Loo, Paris."

  [2] See C. T. Loo's invoice dated March 23, 1935, copy in object file. The invoice was issued by C. T. Loo's New York gallery.

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Mirror

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Name

  C.T. Loo & Company

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Qin, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Mirrors