Mirror with floral roundels
date: label: Date
content: 581-618
label: Period
content: Sui dynasty
notes: label: Provenance
content: From at least 1933
label: Provenance
content: Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (1871-1941), New York and "The Chimneys," Sands Point, Port Washington, Long Island, from at least 1933 [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, New York on February 7, 1944 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Umehara Sueji, Shina-Kodo Seikwa (Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America): Part II Ancient Mirrors (Osaka: Yamanaka & Co., 1933), vol. 2, pl. 121.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Tonying & Company’s invoice, dated February 7, 1944, in which the mirror figures under no. B. 54: “Mirror, painted lacquer on bronze / Sui” copy in object file.
label: Provenance
content: The acquisition was approved by C. G. Abbot, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, on February 4, 1944, see “List of Objects Contemplated for Purchase by the Freer Gallery of Art,” copy in object file.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See invoice cited in note 2. See also A. G. Wenley’s letter to C. F. Yau, Tonying & Co., dated February 5, 1944, in which Wenley confirms the purchase of the mirror along with seven other mirrors from the Holmes collection (see records for F1944.3-F1944.6, F1944.8 -F1944.10).
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
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 Metalwork and Painting, East Corridor (February 15, 1955 to August 26, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Mirror Exhibition (November 16, 1954 to February 25, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1946 (May 7, 1946 to February 25, 1956)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1944 (November 15, 1944 to May 6, 1946)
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: China
topic: label: Topic
content: casting
label: Topic
content: metal
label: Topic
content: bronze
label: Topic
content: Sui dynasty (581 - 618)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
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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: F1944.7
objectType: label: Type
content: Mirror
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: Diam x D: 18.5 x 1.3 cm (7 5/16 x 1/2 in)