Bowl
Object Details
- Description
- Bowl, deep, with flaring sides; two handles in high relief. Plaster restorations.
- Clay: soft, grayish-white.
- Glaze: greenish white, with cream colored areas incipent disintegration.
- Decoration: painted in brown lustre and blue overglaze.
- Provenance
- To 1908
- Vincenzo Marcopoli, Aleppo, Syria, to 1908 [1]
- From 1908 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vincenzo Marcopoli, Aleppo 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. 1802, 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
- Engaging the Senses (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
- Art of the Arab World (August 15, 1980 to May 13, 1981)
- Art of the Arab World (May 8, 1975 to August 20, 1977)
- Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Vincenzo Marcopoli (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
- Period
- Ayyubid period
- Accession Number
- F1908.148
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stone-paste decorated under glaze with blue and over glaze with brown lustre
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10.5 x 28 cm (4 1/8 x 11 in)
- Origin
- Syria
- On View
- Freer Gallery 04: Engaging the Senses
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- The Story of the Beautiful
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Ayyubid period (1171 - 1250)
- Syria
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- stone-paste
- Record ID
- fsg_F1908.148
