Object Details
- Description
- Jar: large irregularly cylindrical, on a broad flat foot.
- Clay: soft, buff.
- Glaze: deep blueish-green, heavily crackled, partly disintegrated and with areas of brilliant iridecence.
- Decoration: indented in the paste.
- Provenance
- To 1908
- E. Hatoun, Cairo, to 1908 [1]
- From 1908 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from E. Hatoun in Cairo, summer of 1908 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Voucher No. 2, December 1908. as well as Original Pottery List, L. 1980, 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
- E. Hatoun (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 13th century
- Period
- Abbasid period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste painted under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 33 x 32 cm (13 x 12 5/8 in)
- Style
- Raqqa ware
- Type
- Vessel
