Object Details
- Description
- Jar, tall ovoidal; neck restored in plaster; body repaired. Cover.
- Clay: very soft, buff.
- Glaze: light grayish green, showing incipient disintegration.
- Decoration: painted in reddish-brown lustre over glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company, Aleppo, Syria, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1928, as well as Voucher No. 47, January 1909, 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 (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 12th-13th century
- Period
- Ayyubid period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste; decorated with lustre
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (assembled): 38.4 x 24.1 cm (15 1/8 x 9 1/2 in)
- Style
- Raqqa ware
- Type
- Vessel
