Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: sandy, white.

  Glaze: opaque, cream-colored, crazed; lustreless blue glaze on the base.

  Decoration: painted in overglaze enamels and gold. Inscription.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951)

• Provenance

  To 1938

  Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1938 [1]

  From 1938

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, New York in 1938 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Freer Gallery or Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 03: Engaging the Senses

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Kelekian, Dikran Garabed

• Topic

  Musical instruments, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Saljuq period (1037 - 1300)

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes