Sword
date: label: Date
content: 5th-3rd century BCE
label: Period
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty
notes: label: Provenance
content: Probably unearthed near the site of the ancient city of Shouchun (in the modern province of Anhui). [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1924
label: Provenance
content: Orvar Karlbeck. [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1924
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop from Orvar Karlbeck. [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to Bishop’s unpublished report, Archaeological Research in China, 1924-34, Mr. Karlbeck had acquired nearly all the objects near the site of the ancient city of Shouchun (in the modern province of Anhui). See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] Curatorial Remark 2 and 3 in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection in August 8, 1974. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: For further information also refer to “Part IV, List 2: A Complete List of Objects in the Bishop Collection” from Sarah L. Newmeyer’s Interim Report (1976), copy in the Carl Whiting Bishop Collection file, Collections Management Office.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Orvar Karlbeck (1879-1967)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: casting
label: Topic
content: metal
label: Topic
content: bronze
label: Topic
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Carl Whiting Bishop collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1979.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Weapon and Armament
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 41.2 x 41.2 cm (16 1/4 x 16 1/4 in)