Object Details
- Description
- Dish: shallow-ovoidal; low foot.
- Clay: soft, buff.
- Glaze: brownish-gray, crackled and modified by the iridescence of incipient decay.
- Decoration: painted in white slip, under glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1905
- Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1905 [1]
- From 1905 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian in 1905 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 1437, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] 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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 17th century
- Period
- Safavid period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste painted under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 5 × 14.3 cm (2 × 5 5/8 in)
- Type
- Vessel
