Object: Rubbing of dagger-axe (F1917.396.1) F1917.396.3

Classification: Rubbing

Medium: Ink on paper

Dimension(s): H x W: 138.3 × 68.6 cm (54 7/16 × 27 in)

Collection: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Accession Number: F1917.396.3

Provenance: To 1917
You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1917 [1]

From 1917 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1917 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Miscellaneous List S.I. 1333, 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.

Previous owner(s): You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (C.L. Freer source) (late 19th-early 20th century)

Published References: Published References are currently unavailable.

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Rubbing of dagger-axe (F1917.396.1)

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