Word: ellerton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viewed by more than 100,000 gallerygoers yearly, the Freer Chinese bronze collection includes axes, swords and daggers, basins, wine cups and pitchers, clapperless bells, mirrors and food vessels. Freer had accumulated 725 pieces; John Ellerton Lodge, the first director, and his successor Archibald Wenley, added some 140 more, stuck rigidly to Freer's high standards. Experts estimate that some of the bronzes go back to the Shang Dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.). While their quality and style vary, Alan Priest, Far East curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, puts all in a single category: "Magnificent...