Ritual vessel (<em>lei</em>) with dragons
date: label: Date
content: ca. 8th century BCE
label: Period
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period
notes: label: Description
content: Ceremonial vessel of the type lei. Wood stand.
label: Description
content: Surface: rough green and blue patination with patches of smoother dull black.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in low relief.
label: Inscriptions
content: 1-character inscription
label: Provenance
content: To 1907
label: Provenance
content: Unknown owner, China, to 1907 [1]
label: Provenance
content: 1907
label: Provenance
content: Shinsuke Hayashi, Kyoto, Japan, acquired in 1907 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1907 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Shinsuke Hayashi in Japan in 1907 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record, Charles Lang Freer noted: "Mr. Hayashi, a leading dealer in Kyoto, from whom I bought this jar in 1907, told me that it came direct to him from China the same year."
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1. Also, see Original Bronze List, S.I. 28, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [4] 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: Exhibition History
content: The Power to See Beauty (October 14, 2017 to September 6, 2022)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to December 13, 1944)
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: Shinsuke Hayashi 林新助 (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: casting
label: Topic
content: metal
label: Topic
content: bronze
label: Topic
content: dragon
label: Topic
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: Spring and Autumn period (770 - 476 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: The Story of the Beautiful
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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: F1907.33
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 35 × 42.3 cm (13 13/16 × 16 11/16 in)