Sword scabbard chape with geometric decoration
date: label: Date
content: 475-221 BCE
label: Period
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period
notes: label: Provenance
content: Reportedly excavated at Xi’an, Shaanxi [1]
label: Provenance
content: Duanfang (1861–1911) [2]
label: Provenance
content: To 1919
label: Provenance
content: You Xiaoxi (late 19th–early 20th century), Shanghai to 1919 [3]
label: Provenance
content: 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1919 [4]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [5]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record states: “Said to have been in the collection of the Viceroy Tuan Fang [Duanfang] and to have been excavated in Sianfu [Xi’an], Shensi [Shaanxi].” However, note that Curatorial Remark 5, William B. Trousdale, 1964, in the object record, states: “This piece is not illustrated in the catalogue of the Tuan Fang [Duanfang] collection (T’ao chai ku yu t’u [Taozhai guyu tu], Shanghai, 1936).”
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1420, p. 337, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [4] See note 3.
label: Provenance
content: [5] 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: Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)
label: Exhibition History
content: Ancient Chinese Jade (September 4, 1980 to March 6, 1981)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: jade
label: Topic
content: nephrite
label: Topic
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: Warring States period (475 - 221 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: Jades for Life and Death
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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: F1919.41
objectType: label: Type
content: Weapon and Armament
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Jade (nephrite)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 4.6 x 5.8 cm (1 13/16 x 2 5/16 in)