Fragmentary base of vessel

Object Details

• Description

  A pinkish clay foot sherd glazed with opaque white and decorated with yellow luster in a design of intertwining branches with sgrafitto spirals on the interior and brown luster on the exterior.

  Design of illuminated medallion.

• Provenance

  From 1950s – 2001

  Mr. and Mrs. Laurance P. Roberts, acquired in the 1950s from Iran. [1]

  From 2001

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Laurance P. Roberts, Baltimore, Maryland. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Acquired by donors in the 1950s during a visit to Iran.

  [2] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Laurance P. Roberts

• Origin

  Kashan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Laurance P. Roberts

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Roberts, Laurance P.

• Place

  Kashan

• Topic

  Art, Medallion, Arts of the Islamic World, Stone-paste, Saljuq period (1037 - 1300), Ceramics

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)