Vase

Object Details

• Description

  Vase, ovoidal with trumpet neck (restored), and spreading foot. Formerly four knobs and four openings of bobeche form on the shoulder; one of the latter remaining

  Clay: soft, gray.

  Glaze: greenish-white, crazed, discolored and modified by incipient disintegration; silvery iridescence.

  Decoration: outlines incised; painted in blue and aubergine (slight) under glaze.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ferandzi Teheranj (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Provenance

  Excavated in Coone, spring of 1908 [1]

  To 1908

  Ferandzi Teheranj, Istanbul, to 1908 [2]

  From 1908 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ferandzi Teheranj, in Istanbul, in summer of 1908 [3]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Remark 1, an undated note from Charles Land Freer, in the object record: "This jar was excavated at Coone, an old destroyed town near Teheran during the Spring of 1908, and was brought to Constantinople by a Persian named Ferandzi Teheranji, from whom I purchased it in one of the Khans of Constantinople, during trip, summer of 1908." See a note within Curatorial Remark 1 (undated, by G.D.G.), wherein it is suggested that Coone is possibly the town of Kum (Qum).

  [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1812, 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.

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1900s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Teheranj, Ferandzi

• Topic

  Art, Qajar period (1779 - 1925), Arts of the Islamic World

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)