H x W x D: 39.2 x 10.2 x 1.2 cm (15 7/16 x 4 x 1/2 in)
Origin
China
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1939.40
Provenance
Reportedly excavated in Anyang, Henan province, China [1]
From at least 1938 to 1939
C. T. Loo & Company, New York from at least December 3, 1938 [2]
From 1939
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company on July 6, 1939 [3]
Notes:
[1] According to C. T. Loo & Co., An Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes, exh. cat. (New York: C. T. Loo & Co., January 1939), cat. 43, pl. XIX.
[2] See "List of objects owned by C. T. Loo and Company, New York…[and] left by Mr. Loo on December 10, 1938 at the Gallery for examination," with an annotation that the object was taken back by Loo on December 23, 1938, copy in object file; it was returned to the Freer Gallery at the end of next month, see "List of objects owned by C. T. Loo and Co., New York [and left] at the Gallery for examination," with an annotation that the object was brought by Frank Caro on January 31, 1939, copy in object file. See also Loo's stockcard no. 81439: "Two bronze daggers with malachite inlay. Shan-Yin," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file.
[3] See C. T. Loo's invoice, dated July 6, 1939, copy in object file.
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