Dish
Object Details
- Description
- Dish, small, flat-rimmed; high hollowed foot. Rim repaired.
- Clay: soft, whitish gray.
- Glaze: pale greenish-cream running into a pool of pale green, now largely disintegrated; mother-of-pearl iridescence.
- Decoration: traces of brown lustre painting over glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1908
- M. Baroody, Beirut, Lebanon, to 1908 [1]
- From 1908 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from M. Baroody in 1908 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Journal Voucher No. 2, December 1908, L. 1775, 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
- Exhibition History
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
- Previous custodian or owner
- M. Baroody (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 12th-13th century
- Accession Number
- F1908.126
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stone-paste painted under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 4.7 x 14.7 cm (1 7/8 x 5 13/16 in)
- Style
- Raqqa ware
- Origin
- Raqqa, Syria
- On View
- Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- The Story of the Beautiful
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- iridescence
- ceramic
- Syria
- Raqqa ware
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- stone-paste
- Record ID
- fsg_F1908.126
