Object Details
- Previous custodian or owner
- Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Provenance
- To 1916
- Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]
- From 1916 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]
- From 1920
- The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 927, pg. 206, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
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- Date
- 550-577
- Period
- Period of Division
- Accession Number
- F1916.345
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Topic
- Buddhism
- demon
- Period of Division (220 - 589)
- Northern dynasties (386 - 581)
- Northern Qi dynasty (550 - 577)
- lotus
- temple
- cave
- China
- Chinese Art
- monster
- Origin
- Northern Xiangtangshan, Middle Cave, Hebei province, China
- Medium
- Limestone freestanding sculpture
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 88.4 x 47.3 x 28.5 cm (34 13/16 x 18 5/8 x 11 1/4 in)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Stone
- Record ID
- fsg_F1916.345
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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