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Ritual wine container (hu) with masks (taotie) and dragons

2 pp

[1] See C. T. Loo's stockcard no. 87520: "Bronze ritual vessel large "HU" on a high oval rim foot. Silvery and rough green patina. SHANG," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file. According to an annotation on the stockcard, the bronze was imported from China in 1947. On May 6, 1947, it was taken by Loo to the Freer Gallery for examination.

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Ritual wine container (pou)

1 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 89, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual wine container (you) with dragons, birds, and bovine heads

4 pp

H x W x D: 50.8 × 32.1 × 35.9 cm (20 × 12 5/8 × 14 1/8 in)

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Ritual wine container (zun) with dragons

1 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 195, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual wine container with lid (you)

1 pp

"Translation reads: 'Nos. 1 and 2) mean Father Kuci [Chn], as a commonly found on the bronzes at that period. No. 3 is a figure of a fish. We find that on other bronzes there are figures of eagles, and other animals, with the words, Father K'ai or Ye.' Attributed to Chan. (S.Tang)"

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Ritual wine cup (gu)

1 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 29, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual wine cup (zhi) with birds

1 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1387, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. By at least 1917, Tonying and Company maintained business locations in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, London, and New York, NY.

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Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals

5 pp

[1] See H. d'Ardenne de Tizac, L'Art Chinois Classique (Paris: Henri Laurens, 1926), p. 25, pls. 6-7.

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Ritual wine vessel (fangtsun)

1 pp

Ceremonial wine vessel, type fang tsun. Surface: smooth dark green patina, with two areas of light-green, and a scattering aerugo of malachite green; traces of earthy incrustation. Decoration: in low and high relief. Inscription scratched within the lip.

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Ritual wine vessel (gu)

1 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 206, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual wine vessel (hu)

2 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 214, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual wine vessel (lei)

1 pp

See also: Freer Gallery of Art, Original Bronze List, S. I. 670; invoices from Lai Yuan & Company addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Meyer and Mr. Charles L. Freer; and Dorota Chudzicka, “’In Love at First Sight Completely, Hopelessly, and Forever with Chinse Art’: The Eugene and Agnes Meyer Collection of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art” in Collections Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer 2014), p. 334-335,

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