Sword
date: label: Date
content: ca. 5th-4th century BCE
label: Period
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period
notes: label: Description
content: Sword. Broken in five pieces, and lacking one piece. Grey-green patina. Guard with design cast in relief and fragments of turquoise inlay. Hilt with two rings cast in relief and traces of turquoise inlay. Pommel round and concave containing thin concentric rings.
label: Provenance
content: To 1924
label: Provenance
content: Orvar Karlbeck, Peking, China. [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1924
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop from Orvar Karlbeck, Peking, China. [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)
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: Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Carl Whiting Bishop collection
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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: F1924.15a-f
objectType: label: Type
content: Weapon and Armament
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 52.4 x 4.8 cm (20 5/8 x 1 7/8 in)