Burial plaque

Object Details

• Provenance

  From at least 1934

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop in Xinzheng, Henan Province sometime during his expeditions in China between 1923 and 1934.

  Notes:

  [1] See item X448, pg. 71 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. The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection in August 8, 1974. See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office. Also see Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record.

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE), Funerary, Carl Whiting Bishop collection

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry