Object Details
- Description
- Mesopotamian, 11th-13th century
- Raqqa
- Albarello, small octagonal. Damaged lip and foot.
- Clay: soft, white.
- Glaze: originally pale green, now largely covered with the cream-color of partial disintegration, having a silvery iridescence; crackled.
- Provenance
- To 1910
- Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company, Aleppo, Syria, to 1910 [1]
- From 1910 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company in 1910 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2068, as well as Voucher No. 44, May 1910, 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
- 11th-12th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste painted under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14 x 8.2 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in)
- Style
- Raqqa ware
- Type
- Vessel
