Plate

Object Details

• Description

  Plate: small, with bowl-like concavity and spreading rim; low foot. Cracked and repaired.

  Clay: soft, white.

  Glaze: glassy greenish white; partially disintegrated areas with a mother-of-pearl iridescence.

  Decoration: painted in blue, black and aubergine under glaze with areas of greenish-white reserve.

• Provenance

  To 1925

  Parish-Watson Company, New York. [1]

  From 1925

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Parish-Watson Company, New York in Feb. 1925. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1. Also, see sales receipt in the Accession File, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Art of the Arab World (August 15, 1980 to May 13, 1981)

  Art of the Arab World (May 8, 1975 to August 20, 1977)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 6 and 7 (February 25, 1956 to April 10, 1962)

  Untitled Exhibition, Islamic Manuscripts, Pottery, Metalwork, and Glass (April 12, 1955 to November 21, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, Islamic Arts, 1947 (October 6, 1947 to February 25, 1956)

  Untitled Exhibition, Islamic Ceramics and Glass (January 9, 1945 to May 1, 1945)

  Untitled Exhibition, Islamic Manuscripts (May 1, 1945 to September 25, 1947)

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian and Near Eastern Art (May 5, 1933 to September 24, 1947)

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian Paintings and Ceramics (May 5, 1933 to January 9, 1945)

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian Art (March 14, 1931 to May 5, 1933)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Parish-Watson Company

• Origin

  Syria

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Parish-Watson Company

• Topic

  Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Stone-paste, Iridescence, Ceramics

• Culture

  Muslims, Syrians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)