Object Details
- Description
- Jar, bulbous pear-form, with a bold foot and two handles.
- Clay: soft, grayish.
- Glaze: turquoise green, almost lost under white and iridescent areas of partial disintegration.
- Decoration: painted in black under glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1908
- Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Paris, France to 1908 [1]
- From 1908 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, Paris, in 1908 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Voucher No. 46, March 1908, L. 1691, 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
- 12th-14th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste painted under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14.1 x 14.1 cm (5 9/16 x 5 9/16 in)
- Style
- Raqqa ware
- Type
- Vessel
