Bowl, semi-globular with two loop handles

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl, semi-globular with two loop handles.

  Clay: soft, brownish, thinly modelled.

  Glaze: exterior, green,--now discolored and partly disintegrated; inside--yellow, discolored and disintegrated.

  Decoration: three rows of sharply pointed bosses.

• Provenance

  Reportedly found near Baiae, Gulf of Naples, by unnamed Italian fishermen [1]

  To 1904

  Charles C. Coleman (1840 -1928), Capri, to 1904 [2]

  From 1904 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Charles C. Coleman in 1904 [3]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Remark 3, Charles Land Freer, undated, in the object record: "This bowl is said to have been landed near Baiae by Italian fishermen who drew it in a regular fish net out of the Gulf of Naples."

  [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1309, as well as Voucher No. 5, September 1904, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [3] See note 2.

  [4] 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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Caryl Coleman (1840-1928) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Greece

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Coleman, Charles Caryl

• Place

  Greece

• Topic

  Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art

• Culture

  Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)