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Bone, decorated fragment

H x W (overall): 4.2 x 2.4 cm (1 5/8 x 15/16 in)

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Bone, decorated fragment

[1] See Curatorial Remark 1. See also the "List of Objects Offered to the Freer Gallery of Art" and Deed of Gift from John Hadley Cox, Collections Management Office.

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Bone, decorated fragment

H x W (overall): 10.2 x 3.5 cm (4 x 1 3/8 in)

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Bottle

No. 1219, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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[1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 3, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

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Bottle

The shape of the bottle, or bottle-shaped vase, goes back to earlier metal prototypes and can be found in the eleventh or twelfth century (an identical shape occurs in a silver vessel from the Seljuk period in the Freer Gallery, no. 50.5). Similar bottles are frequently employed in miniature paintings depicting princely entertainment scenes from the fourteenth century onward. They are represented

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Bottle

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 19, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locati

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Bottle

[1] See Voucher No. 1, November 1903, L. 1235, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Bottle

2 pp

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 41, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Bottle and Stand

2 pp

This long-necked jar and matching stand belong to a group of funerary vessels of northern provenance. Unlike Han dynasty lead-glazed burial pieces, it served a Buddhist function. The appliques of monster masks, rosettes and lozenges with beaded borders reflect Central Asian, specifically Khotanese, influence. The tall, splayed base support, which lends the jar a decidedly more attenuated shape, ha

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Bottle with inlaid design of orchids

3 pp

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

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Bow hold (<em>fu</em>)

2 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 580, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) was a collector and dealer born in Shanghai, China. After he left Shanghai in 1910, he lived, at various points in time, in London, Montreal, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He established a gallery in New York City in 1920.

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