Pendant in the form of a tiger
date: label: Date
content: ca. 600-476 BCE
label: Period
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period
notes: label: Provenance
content: Excavated from Henan province, Xinzheng, in 1923 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1923
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, acquired by Carl Whiting Bishop [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Excavated by Carl Whiting Bishop and Archibald Gibson Wenley as part of the Freer Gallery China Expedition. See item X444, p. 70 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. See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. Also refer to Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office. The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection on August 8, 1974.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
place: label: Origin
content: Xinzheng, purportedly excavated at Henan province, China
topic: label: Topic
content: jade
label: Topic
content: nephrite
label: Topic
content: tiger
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: Carl Whiting Bishop collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
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: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1979.36
objectType: label: Type
content: Jewelry and Ornament
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Jade (nephrite)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 3.8 × 1.7 × 0.7 cm (1 1/2 × 11/16 × 1/4 in)