Object Details
- Description
- Clay: dense, white.
- Glaze: transparent; partially disintegrated and iridescent on the outside of the cup. Decoration: painted in black and blue under glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1906-1907
- Unidentified owner, Egypt, to 1906-1907 [1]
- From 1906-1907 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Egypt from an unidentified owner in the winter of 1906-1907 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Reserved Pottery List, R. 298, L. 1540, 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
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 17th-18th century?
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3.8 x 6.3 cm (1 1/2 x 2 1/2 in)
- Type
- Vessel
