Jar

Object Details

• Description

  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.

• Provenance

  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.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)

  Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)

  Near Eastern Pottery and Persian Painting (May 2, 1923 to March 14, 1931)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Tabbagh Frères (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Tabbagh Frères, Freer, Charles Lang

• Topic

  Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Il-Khanid dynasty (1256 - 1353)

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)