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Length of lined textile, fragment from an obi

Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

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Length of lined textile, fragment from an obi

Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

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Length of lined textile, fragment from an obi

Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

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Length of silk brocade

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Reserved Textile List, R. 242, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Length of silk brocade

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Reserved Textile List, R. 243, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Leys jar or spittoon

3 pp

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1265, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Lid of a you

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 950, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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[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 auction at Parke-Bernet in New York, in the mid-1970s. See email dated February 26, 1998, copy in object file, Collections Management Office. See also Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

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Lid of a container (possibly a pou)

Lid of vessel. Dome shaped. Three tigers in relief seen in side view with heads rising from surface to become virtually sculpture in the round, looking towards the center. Stylized broad bands of tigers on angular meander background. Band of small circles surrounds center of lid which is restored; the original center probably had a knob raised on a stem (see F13.30). Dark shiny surface; extensivel

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Lidded bowl with design of iris

13 pp

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 286, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Lidded box in the form of a melon with grapevines and knob in the form of a frog

2 pp

[1] Object file, undated folder sheet. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

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Lidded food cauldron (ding) with painted decoration

The four vessels reportedly came from Changsha, Hunan province, however, there is no certainty of their provenance, see Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition exh. cat. (Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1971), pp. 28-29 (ill.) and Diane M. Nelson, “Bronze ‘Ming-ch’i’ Vessels with Painted Decoration: A Regional Study in Han Pictorialism,” Artibus Asiae 42, 2/3 (

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Lidded food cauldron (<em>ding</em>) with painted decoration