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Ritual grain server (gui) with masks

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 193, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual grain server (gui) with spikes, ribs, and, dragons

3 pp

Ceremonial vessel, type kuei. Surface: silvery gray patina with patches of green aerugo; rough green patination inside; azurite under the foot. Decoration: in relief and incised.

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Ritual grain server (gui) with square base and masks, dragons, and birds

4 pp

[4] See Loo's stockcard no. LAP 5901: "Bronze incense-burner on a square stand, 6th cent. B.C.," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file. According to annotations on the stockcard, the vessel arrived in New York on the S.S. Normandie with Loo in November 1937 and was brought to the Freer Gallery for approval in December 1937.

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Ritual grain server (gui)

2 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 209, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual grain server with lid (gui) and water buffalos

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 1180, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual serving vessel with lid (fu) and dragons

[1] The Imperial Household collection of Prince Kung was under the authority of Prince Kung Ching Wang (Yixin) (1833-1898), and, later, Prince Puwei (Prince Gongxian) (1880-1936), before Yamanaka and Company acquired it. See Illustrated Catalogue of the Remarkable Collection of the Imperial Prince Kung of China, A Wonderful Treasury of Celestial Art: recently acquired by the widely known firm of Y

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Ritual vessel

2 pp

The Translation reads: Bronze jar, called "Yi," with some inscriptions on the cover and the bottom of the jar. The inscriptions read: "Ya-Tso-mo-Sui-Yi." 'Mo-Sui-Yi' is the name of this jar. The first word means that the jar is offered to the temple. The second and third words mean that so and so made it.

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Ritual vessel (an)

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 200, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual vessel (huo)

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 559, 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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