Jades for Life and Death

Classification: Ceremonial Object

Medium: Calcite

Dimension(s): H x W x D: 6.5 × 6.8 × 6.7 cm (2 9/16 × 2 11/16 × 2 5/8 in) Diam (hole): 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in)

Origin: China, purportedly excavated in Chilin province

Notes: purportedly excavated in Chilin province

Credit Line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Collection: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Accession Number: F1917.369

琮
年代未知
中國，傳吉林出土
方解石
高6.5、寬6.8、厚6.7 釐米；孔徑5.2 釐米

查爾斯·蘭·佛利爾贈送
器物編號：F1917.369

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. 1309, 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)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Description: Squared, hollow cylinder of the type ts’ung [cong] 琮; projecting collar at both ends; under color ivory partially covered with surface color of reddish brown, darker in the veins; two gray areas on corners.

Curatorial Remarks

1. Bought from Seaouke Yue [You Xiaoxi] 游筱溪, of Shanghai 上海, in New York. For price, see Original Miscellaneous List, p. 297. $50

2. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Original attribution: Chinese. Hsia [Xia] 夏. See further, S.I. 1309, Appendix VIII. Excavated in Chilin [Jilin] 吉林 province.

3. (Isabel Ingram Mayer, 1946) Ch'ing [Qing] 清 dynasty. Reproduction of Chou [Zhou] 周 type.

4. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 17, 2008) Ceremonial Object added as secondary classification.

5. (Susan Kitsoulis, per Keith Wilson April 20, 2010) Object name changed from "Cong 琮" to "Ceremonial object." Title changed from "Cong 琮" to "Tube (cong 琮)."

6. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, April 29, 2016) Qing dynasty removed as Period; object date changed from 1644-1911 to Date unknown.

Published References

J. Keith Wilson, Jingmin Zhang. Jades for Life and Death. .

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