Canopy fitting or finial
date: label: Date
content: 5th-4th century BCE
label: Period
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty
notes: label: Provenance
content: Probably unearthed in Huoqiu (in the modern province of Anhui). [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1924
label: Provenance
content: Orvar Karlbeck. [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1924
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop from Orvar Karlbeck. [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See item X87, pg. 56 in “Part IV, List 2: A Complete List of Objects in the Bishop Collection” from Sarah L. Newmeyer’s Interim Report (1976), copy in the Carl Whiting Bishop Collection file, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: Also refer to Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file for location.
label: Provenance
content: [2] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: [3] Curatorial Remark 2 and 6 in the object record. The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection in August 8, 1974.
label: Provenance
content: Also 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: bird
label: Topic
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Carl Whiting Bishop collection
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: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1979.23
objectType: label: Type
content: Tool and Equipment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 10.5 x 5 x 5.5 cm (4 1/8 x 1 15/16 x 2 3/16 in)