Vase

Object Details

• Description

  Vase: large, ovoidal, with a high, tubular neck. Broken and repaired.

  Clay: soft, dense, buff.

  Glaze: thick cobalt blue with traces of gilding.

  Decoration: in bold relief, with details outlined in red pigment, over glaze.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Parish-Watson Company

• Provenance

  1928

  Parish-Watson Company, New York 1928 [1]

  From 1928

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Parish-Watson Company, New York in 1928 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s, 1300s

• Name

  Parish-Watson Company

• Topic

  Peacock, Art, Animals, Fishes, Music, Men, Arts of the Islamic World, Birds, Saljuq period (1037 - 1300), Forgery, Plants, Crane

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)