Object Details
- Description
- Mesopotamian, 12th-13th century
- Raqqa
- Bowl, deep, on a bold, spreading, recessed foot. Broken, repaired, and restored with foreign additions.
- Clay: soft, sandy, buff-white.
- Glaze: turquoise green, almost completely lost under a whitish iridescent patina of partial disintegration.
- Decoration: incised in the paste and painted in black under glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1911
- Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company, Aleppo, Syria, to 1911 [1]
- From 1911 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company in 1911 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2223, as well as Voucher No. 33, June 1911, 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
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste painted under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 12.2 x 20 cm (4 13/16 x 7 7/8 in)
- Style
- Raqqa ware
- Type
- Vessel
