Lunette
date: label: Date
content: middle 8th century
label: Period
content: Tang dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Lunette: engraved design on obverse in very low relief; three figures, a Taoist triad, placed within interlacing floral scrolls. Two characters beneath central figure. Border raised; incised floral design. Limestone. Color, dark grey with golden-brown patina (?). Broken. Repaired.
label: Inscriptions
content: 1. (From original folder sheet note 5) (Undated folder sheet note, C.T. Loo)
label: Provenance
content: To 1924
label: Provenance
content: C. T. Loo & Company, New York. [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1924
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company, New York in July 1924. [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Freer Gallery of Art accession file, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, North Corridor (November 20, 1969 to December 11, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Centennial Exhibition, North Corridor (February 25, 1956 to November 20, 1969)
label: Exhibition History
content: Stone Sculpture, Gallery 16, 1923 (May 2, 1923 to February 4, 1944)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Asian Sculpture, North Corridor (May 2, 1923 to October 28, 1955)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: C. T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: stone
label: Topic
content: Daoism
label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: Tang dynasty (618 - 907)
label: Topic
content: Laozi
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: F1924.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stone
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 74.6 x 165.5 x 25 cm (29 3/8 x 65 3/16 x 9 13/16 in)