Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl on low foot, grayish, originally white glaze decorated with a large blue composition of solid color and hatched lines forming vegetal and arabesque designs inside and outside of a square set on its point. Broken and repaired, plaster restorations.

• Provenance

  To 1966

  C. Dikran Kelekian, New York to 1966 [1]

  From 1966

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. Dikran Kelekian in 1966 [2]

  Notes:

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

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation (December 4, 2004 to July 17, 2005)

  Near Eastern Ceramics (June 24, 1982 to September 23, 1982)

  Near Eastern Ceramics (May 14, 1981 to May 10, 1985)

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

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

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  C. Dikran Kelekian (1900-1982)

• Origin

  Iraq

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 800s, 700s, 1100s, 1200s, 1000s

• Name

  Kelekian, C. Dikran

• Topic

  Art, Pottery, Arts of the Islamic World, Ceramics, Samarra ware

• Culture

  Muslims, Abbasids, Iraqis

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)