Tube (cong <em>琮</em>)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600-ca. 771 BCE
label: Period
content: Shang or Western Zhou dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Squared hollow cylinder of the type ts’ung [cong] 琮; chocolate brown, finely mottled with gray. Smooth surface. (Two old cracks and some smoothed chips.) Serpentine.
label: Description
content: Acquired with a box, now lost.
label: Provenance
content: To 1917
label: Provenance
content: Li Wenqing (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1917 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1917 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Li Wenqing, in New York, in 1917 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1131, pg. 254, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Voucher No. 18, December 1916.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Li Wenqing 李文卿 (ca. 1869-1931) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: serpentine (mineral)
label: Topic
content: jade
label: Topic
content: Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)
label: Topic
content: Western Zhou dynasty (ca. 1050 - 771 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: Jades for Life and Death
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1917.42
objectType: label: Type
content: Ceremonial Object
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Jade (serpentine)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 4 × 5.7 × 5.5 cm (1 9/16 × 2 1/4 × 2 3/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: Diam: 4.7 cm (1 7/8 in)