Box with lid (<em>lian</em>)
date: label: Date
content: 100 BCE-100 CE
label: Period
content: Han dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Covered box of the type "lien," to hold toilet articles.
label: Description
content: Wooden stand. Fire-gilt surface, much corroded.
label: Description
content: Lightly incised decoration on the cover. Remains of painted decoration, inside, on cover and bottom, outside, on bottom.
label: Provenance
content: To 1923
label: Provenance
content: Tonying and Company, New York, to 1923 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1923
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company, New York, in 1923
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. For additional information, see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Jades and Bronze, East Corridor (November 19, 1923 to March 14, 1931)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Tonying and Company 通運公司 (established 1902)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: casting
label: Topic
content: metal
label: Topic
content: bronze
label: Topic
content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
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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: F1923.2a-e
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 18 x 18.4 cm (7 1/16 x 7 1/4 in)