Pendant in the form of a tiger

Object Details

• Provenance

  Excavated from Henan province, Xinzheng, in 1923 [1]

  From 1923

  Freer Gallery of Art, acquired by Carl Whiting Bishop [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Excavated by Carl Whiting Bishop and Archibald Gibson Wenley as part of the Freer Gallery China Expedition. See item X444, p. 70 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. See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. Also refer to Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office. The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection on August 8, 1974.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Xinzheng, purportedly excavated at Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Place

  Xinzheng, purportedly excavated at Henan province, China

• Topic

  Art, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Chinese Art, Nephrite, Jade, Spring and Autumn period (770 - 476 BCE), Carl Whiting Bishop collection, Tiger

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry