8 Bone carvings
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1250 - ca. 1050 BCE
label: Period
content: Late Shang dynasty, Anyang period
notes: label: Provenance
content: To 1960
label: Provenance
content: J. D. Chen (died April 20, 1968), Hong Kong, and Frank Caro, C. T. Loo & Co., New York, to 1960 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1960 to 1979
label: Provenance
content: Department of Treasury, U. S. Customs Service [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1979
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, from October 23, 1979 [3]
label: Provenance
content: [1] This object is one of a group of 88 objects (F80.104-F80.180, FSC-S-22-25 and FSC-O-11a-h) seized in 1960 by the U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury, from the dealer and collector J.D. Chen, Hong Kong and Frank Caro of C. T. Loo & Co., New York.
label: Provenance
content: The objects were deemed to have been introduced into the commerce of the United States in violation of 19 U.S.C. 1592 (Trade with Communist China).
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1. The object’s ownership title is based on the settlement agreement, dated November 1971, between the United States, Chen Tung Siang Wen, the executrix for J.D. Chen Estate, and Frank Caro, copy in object file.
label: Provenance
content: See U.S. Customs Service Memorandum, April 23, 1979 and a letter from Thadeus Rojek, Chief Counsel, Department of the Treasury, U.S. Custom Service, to Marie C. Malaro, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution, dated November 29, 1979, copy in object file. The objects remained in the custody of the U.S. Customs Service office in New York until 1979.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The object was transferred to the Freer Gallery of Art on October 23, 1979.
label: Collection
content: Freer Study Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings (February 25, 2023 to April 28, 2024)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: U.S. Customs Service
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Chen Rentao 陳仁濤 (1906-1968)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Frank Caro (1904-1980)
place: label: Origin
content: Anyang, probably Henan province, China
topic: label: Topic
content: bone
label: Topic
content: Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)
label: Topic
content: Anyang period, Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1300 - 1050 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
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: Transfer from the U.S. Customs Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: FSC-O-11a-h
objectType: label: Type
content: Tool and Equipment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bone
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a): 6 × 1.6 × 0.8 cm (2 3/8 × 5/8 × 5/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b): 11 × 2 × 0.9 cm (4 5/16 × 13/16 × 3/8 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (c (part 1)): 6.2 × 3 × 0.9 cm (2 7/16 × 1 3/16 × 3/8 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (c (part 2)): 9.6 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm (3 3/4 × 3/16 × 3/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (d): 2.5 × 1.5 × 0.6 cm (1 × 9/16 × 1/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (e): 4.7 × 1.6 × 0.4 cm (1 7/8 × 5/8 × 3/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (f): 7.8 × 2.2 × 0.6 cm (3 1/16 × 7/8 × 1/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (g): 9.2 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm (3 5/8 × 1/4 × 1/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (h): 5