Bowl

Bowl, with an infolded bottom, on a high retired foot (restored in plaster).
Clay: soft, grayish-white.
Glaze: greenish cream, discolored brown, and having a high golden iridescence. Decoration: painted in black under glaze. An inscription repeated six times.

Historical period(s)
12th-13th century
Medium
Stone-paste; painted under glaze
Style
Raqqa ware
Dimensions
H x Diam: 8.2 × 19.3 cm (3 1/4 × 7 5/8 in)
Geography
Syria, Raqqa
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1904.293
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Bowl

Keywords
iridescence, Raqqa ware, Syria
Provenance

To 1904
Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, to 1904 [1]

From 1904 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing in 1904 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1333, Sketches by Hokusai, S.I. 4, as well as Voucher No. 1, December 1904, 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.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Siegfried Bing (C.L. Freer source) 1838-1905
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Description

Bowl, with an infolded bottom, on a high retired foot (restored in plaster).
Clay: soft, grayish-white.
Glaze: greenish cream, discolored brown, and having a high golden iridescence. Decoration: painted in black under glaze. An inscription repeated six times.

Published References
  • Marilyn Jenkins-Medina. Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria. New York and New Haven. p. 105.
Collection Area(s)
Arts of the Islamic World
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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