Pewabic Bowl

Bowl: Tall with straight sloping sides, small spreading foot.
Clay: Buff-white stoneware.
Glaze: Opaque, lustrous, completely covers vessel; outside pebbly, iridescent grayish around rim, streaky mustard yellow over crackled pinkish white on body, inside pale iridescent grayish green and lavender.

Seal of the Pewabic Pottery under glaze on base.
Height: 13.4 cm. (5-5/16 in.) Diameter: 14.5 cm (5-11/16 in.)

Maker(s)
Artist: John Graziosi Ella Peters Mary Chase Perry Stratton (1867-1961)
Historical period(s)
early 20th century
Medium
Clay with iridescent glaze
Style
Pewabic ware
Dimensions
H x Diam: 13.5 x 14.7 cm (5 5/16 x 5 13/16 in)
Geography
United States, Michigan, Detroit
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1917.432
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Bowl

Keywords
iridescence, Pewabic ware, United States
Provenance

To 1917
Mary Chase Perry Stratton (1867-1961), Detroit, to 1917 [1]

From 1917 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Mary Chase Perry Stratton in 1917 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See American Pottery List, R. 6528, L. 2587, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record: "Gift of Mary Chase Perry Stratton in 1946 to replace bowl which was broken. Original bowl [which was a purchase] bearing this number was catalogued as follows: Bowl: tall. Clay: dense, covered with glaze. Glaze: lustrous black mottled with iridescent red-violet. .152 x .143" According to Curatorial Remark 2, S. Hobbs, 1978, in the object record: "This flared bowl with slightly everted foot is a replacement for a very similar piece which was broken and returned to Pewabic Pottery to be fixed. The latter bowl was lost, so the Pottery made a replacement piece. The original was found, repaired and is now in the possession of Mrs. Ella Peters, who was Mrs. Stratton's secretary and her successor at the Pottery until it closed in 1965. ...The original bowl, which Mrs. Peters has, retains the Freer reserve number in red."

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Mary Chase Perry Stratton (C.L. Freer source) 1867-1961

Description

Bowl: Tall with straight sloping sides, small spreading foot.
Clay: Buff-white stoneware.
Glaze: Opaque, lustrous, completely covers vessel; outside pebbly, iridescent grayish around rim, streaky mustard yellow over crackled pinkish white on body, inside pale iridescent grayish green and lavender.

Seal of the Pewabic Pottery under glaze on base.
Height: 13.4 cm. (5-5/16 in.) Diameter: 14.5 cm (5-11/16 in.)

Collection Area(s)
American Art
Web Resources
Whistler's Neighborhood
Google Cultural Institute
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