Lobed ladle with floral scrolls
date: label: Date
content: late 7th-early 8th century
label: Period
content: Early or mid-Tang dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Ladle, with a seven-lobed bowl. Silver. Surface: intact with one small dent in forward lobe of bowl.
label: Provenance
content: From at least 1929
label: Provenance
content: Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (1871-1941), New York and "The Chimneys," Sands Point, Port Washington, Long Island, from at least January 1929 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From at least 1944
label: Provenance
content: Tonying and Company, New York, from at least February 1944 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1944
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company on September 21, 1944 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Mrs. Holmes lent the object to the 1929 exhibition in Berlin, Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst (Berlin: Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst and Preussischen Akademie der Künste, January 12 –April 2, 1929), cat. 425 (ill.) and to the International Exhibition of Chinese Art at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in London in 1935-36, see Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 7, 1936), cat. 786 (ill.).
label: Provenance
content: [2] See “List of Objects Contemplated for Purchase by the Freer Gallery of Art,” approved by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution on February 4, 1944, copy in object file.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See Tonying & Company’s invoice, dated September 21, 1944, in which the object figures under no. G. 14: “Large Chinese Silver Ladle / Tang,” copy in object file. See also A. G. Wenley’s letter to C. F. Yau, Tonying & Co., dated September 19, 1944, in which Wenley confirms the purchase of the object.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Center of the World: China and the Silk Road (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: Silk Road Exhibition (August 18 to December 25, 2011)
label: Exhibition History
content: Silk Road Luxuries from China (November 5, 2011 to January 3, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (February 18, 1983 to April 1, 1987)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (March 15, 1982 to June 15, 1982)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Bronze, Jade, Metalwork (March 1, 1957 to January 1, 1963)
label: Exhibition History
content: Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 14 and 15 (February 25, 1956 to March 1, 1957)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1955 (August 26, 1955 to October 25, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1946 (May 7, 1946 to February 25, 1956)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (1871-1941)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Tonying and Company 通運公司 (established 1902)
place: label: Origin
content: Probably Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China
topic: label: Topic
content: chasing
label: Topic
content: repoussé
label: Topic
content: hammering
label: Topic
content: punching
label: Topic
content: metal
label: Topic
content: Tang dynasty (618 - 907)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
setName: label: On View
content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 16: Center of the World: China and the Silk Road
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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: F1944.58
objectType: label: Type
content: Tool and Equipment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hammered silver with repoussé, chased, and ring-punched decoration
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 31 x 6.1 x 4.5 cm (12 3/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in)