- Provenance
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To 1908
Tabbagh Frères, Paris, to 1908 [1]From 1908 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tabbagh Frères, Paris, through the Bauer-Folsom Company, New York, in 1908 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1860, 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)
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Tabbagh Frères (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Description
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Jar, large, ovoidal, with a truncated neck. Repaired and restored.
Clay: soft, dense, grayish.
Glaze: brilliant deep cobalt blue.
Decoration: modeled in the paste, in low relief.
- Published References
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- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 313.
- Masterpieces of Western and Near Eastern Ceramics. 8 vols., Tokyo and New York. vol. 4: pl. 53.
- Dr. Esin Atil. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Exh. cat. Washington, 1973. cat. 77, pp. 168-169.
- Richard Ettinghausen, Ernst Kuhnel. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. 6 vols., London and New York, 1938 - 1939. pp. 1622-1623, 1690, no. 156, pl. 760.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
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