Fitting

Object Details

• Provenance

  To mid-1970s

  Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts. [1]

  From mid-1970s to 1998

  Private collection, Princeton, New Jersey, purchased from Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts in the mid-1970s. [2]

  From 1998

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of an anonymous donor, Princeton, New Jersey. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] According to an email from donor, the donor purchased item “from an auctioneer named Robert Eldred somewhere on Cape Cod”.

  See email dated February 26, 1998, copy in object file, Collections Management Office. See also Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See Acquisition Consideration Form and the Deed of Gift, copies in object file, Collections Management Office. According to an email from donor, the donor purchased item “from an auctioneer named Robert Eldred somewhere on Cape Cod”.

  See email dated February 26, 1998, copy in object file, Collections Management Office. See also Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [3] See note 2.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc.

  Robert W. Bagley

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Robert W. Bagley

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

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• Date

  BCE 0s, BCE 1000s

• Name

  Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., Bagley, Robert W.

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Bronze, Western Zhou dynasty (ca. 1050 - 771 BCE), Art, Sculpture, Chinese Art, Metal-work

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment