Object Details
- Description
- Syrian, 13th-14th century
- Fragment of a dish.
- Clay: dense, grayish-white.
- Glaze: grayish blue, largely covered with a frosting of incipient disintegration.
- Decoration: painted in gold lustre, over glaze (worn).
- 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. 2074, 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
- 13th-14th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Glazed clay
- Dimensions
- H x W: 4.4 x 15.6 cm (1 3/4 x 6 1/8 in)
- Type
- Vessel
