Object Details
- Description
- Jar, tall, sharply tapering ovoidal form; truncated neck. Neck and side wall restored.
- Clay: soft, sandy, white.
- Glaze: originally blue-green, now covered by a thin brownish earth encrustation. High iridescence where glaze is visible.
- Decoration: carved in the paste.
- Provenance
- To 1908
- Vincenzo Marcopoli, Aleppo, Syria, to 1908 [1]
- From 1908 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vincenzo Marcopoli in 1908 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1788, as well as Journal Voucher No. 2, December 1908, 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
- Vincenzo Marcopoli
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 12th-13th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste decorated under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 41.8 x 30.1 cm (16 7/16 x 11 7/8 in)
- Style
- Raqqa ware
- Type
- Vessel
