Object Details
- Label
- In ninth-century Iraq, potters began to explore the decorative potential of letters and words to embellish surfaces. The white bowl, inscribed with the work of Umar belongs to one of the earliest groups of signed ceramic vessels from the Islamic world.
- Provenance
- ?-2005
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne (1914-2004) and Gratia Hauge (d. 2000) [1]
- From 2005
- The National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, by gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge [2]
- Notes:
- [1] The Hauge family began collecting Asian paintings, sculpture, and ceramics in the late 1940s and would amass a large collection in the post-World War II years.
- [2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between members of the Hauge families. See Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, copy in object file. From 2005-2023 the work was part of the National Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection and on March 21, 2023, the work was internally transferred to the National Museum of Asian Art Collection.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Sky Blue: Color in Ceramics of the Islamic World (Saturday, July 16, 2016 - Sunday, April 02, 2017)
- Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation (December 4, 2004 to July 17, 2005)
- Asian Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts (October 29, 2000 to April 22, 2001)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 9th-10th century
- Period
- Abbasid period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Medium
- Earthenware painted with cobalt pigment on opaque glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 4.2 x 14 cm (1 5/8 x 5 1/2 in)
- Type
- Vessel
