Footed bowl
Object Details
- Description
- This vessel flares up from the bottom of the bowl to a sharp carination at which point the walls become vertical, ending in a thin simple rim. The vessel has a narrow but relatively high ring foot. The background of the bowl is white. The inside of the bowl is decorated with a four-fold stylized floral pattern with a band of white-on-black calligraphy at the carination. The inside of the bowl has a band of white-on-black calligraphy. The lower outside areas of the bowl are decorated with a stylized plant motif. The ring foot is undecorated.
- 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
- Previous custodian or owner
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Credit Line
- Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 12th century
- Period
- Saljuq period
- Accession Number
- S1997.111
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Earthenware painted under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 10.6 x 20.2 cm (4 3/16 x 7 15/16 in)
- Origin
- Kashan, Iran
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- plant
- flower
- Saljuq period (1037 - 1300)
- Iran
- earthenware
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Hauge collection
- Record ID
- fsg_S1997.111
