Pitcher

Object Details

• Description

  A pitcher with a dove knop on the handle. Broken and repaired. Clay: soft, white. Glaze: white tin, showing much iridescence. Decoration: Modelled in low relief, painted and gilded; in the central band in relief against a ground of pierced work (all surfaces worn). Inscription.

• Provenance

  To 1932

  Fahim Kouchakji, New York to 1932 [1]

  From 1932

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Fahim Kouchakji, New York in 1932 [2]

  Notes:

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

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Fahim Kouchakji

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Fahim Kouchakji

• Topic

  Art, Polo, Arts of the Islamic World, Saljuq period (1037 - 1300), Iridescence, Ceramics

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)