Canopy fitting or finial

Object Details

• Provenance

  Probably unearthed in Huoqiu (in the modern province of Anhui). [1]

  To 1924

  Orvar Karlbeck. [2]

  From 1924

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop from Orvar Karlbeck. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See item X83, pg. 56 in “Part IV, List 2: A Complete List of Objects in the Bishop Collection” from Sarah L. Newmeyer’s Interim Report (1976), copy in the Carl Whiting Bishop Collection file, Collections Management Office.

  Also refer to Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file for location.

  [2] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

  [3] Curatorial Remark 2 and 6 in the object record. The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection in August 8, 1974.

  Also see note 1.

• 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

  Orvar Karlbeck (1879-1967)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Name

  Karlbeck, Orvar

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Bronze, Art, Sculpture, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Chinese Art, Carl Whiting Bishop collection, Metal-work

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment