Tiny fragment picked up on the site by R. Ettinghausen

Object Details

• Provenance

  From 1951

  Freer Gallery of Art, Study Collection, acquired on archeological site by Richard Ettinghausin (1906-1979) [1]

  Notes:

  [1] See Study Collection Catalogue Card, copy in the object file. Richard Ettinghausen was a German born and educated scholar of Islamic history and art history. In 1944, he joined the Freer Gallery of Art as a curator of Islamic Art and became chief curator in 1961. He left the Freer in 1966, accepting a professorship at New York University, where he helped to develop the Hagop Kevorkian Center of Near Eastern Studies. Ettinghausen acquired this object for the Freer Gallery during a 1951 research trip to the middle east.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Richard Ettinghausen (1906-1979)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Richard Ettinghausen

• Type

  Unclassified

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1890s

• Name

  Ettinghausen, Richard

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Unclassified