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Ritual vessel (lei) with dragons

2 pp

[2] See note 1. Also, see Original Bronze List, S.I. 28, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual vessel (pan)

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 199, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual vessel (pien hu) and stopper

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 90, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual vessel (pou)

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 212, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual vessel (pou)

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 115, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual vessel (yi) with cover

2 pp

[3] Eugene Meyer, Agnes E. Meyer, and Charles Lang Freer negotiated with Marcel Bing to arrange a joint purchase of Bing's collection of 11 Chinese bronzes and 1 jade. See correspondence cited in note 2. The Meyers and Freer decided to divide the collection - Meyers acquiring 5 bronzes (including this object) and Freer acquiring 6 bronzes in addition to the jade -- and the price, calculating each

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Ritual vessel (you) and cover

The figures 1, 2, and 3 are common letters in this kind of receptacles at Shang dynasty, and mean hand down to the son and grand son, in other words, hereditary. Numbers 4, 5, mean father and K'ai. They are also common. They are interpreted by scholars as for the father 'K'ai.' The word 'K'ai' is one of the Shih-Kan, ten honorary and astronomical characters. All the Emperors in Shang dynasty calle

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Ritual vessel (zun), fragment

2 pp

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 824, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual vessel with cover

[1] Curatorial Remark 3, H.E. Buckman, 1964, in the object record states: "The Envelope file which has now been destroyed, contained only the additional information: 'Excavated in Shansi; obtained by the Shantung connoisseur Chen Kai Chi of Wei Hsien.'" Curatorial Remark 4, H.C. Lovell, 1974, in the object record, states: "The box in which this object came bears this carved inscription on the lid:

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Ritual water basin (pan)

[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 190, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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Ritual wine container (fangyi) with masks(taotie), serpents, and birds

9 pp

1. Two inscriptions in ancient seal script. See original folder sheet note 3 (A.G.W., 1944).

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Ritual wine container (hu) with masks

[1] According to Curatorial Remark 3, Charles Lang Freer, undated, in the object record: "The Yamanakas bought this piece directly from the late Prince Kung during 1912, brought it to New York and sold it to me through an auction held at the American Art Association galleries, on February 28, 1913. This piece, along with S.I. 517, was in former years in the collection of Prince Kung." The Imperial

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