H x Diam (overall): 29.6 x 16.7 cm (11 5/8 x 6 9/16 in)
Style:
Pewabic ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date:
ca. 1917
Provenance:
1917-1920
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI [1]
1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
Notes:
[1] See receipt from Pewabic Pottery to Charles Lang Freer, August 2, 1917, Box 123, Folder 8, Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Author M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, copy in object file.
[2] The original deed of Charles Lang Free's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Research Completed on July 29, 2022
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Freer’s Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers (October 15, 2022 - ongoing)
Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision (February 23, 2008 to August 1, 2010)
Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty (August 13, 2005 to September 17, 2006)
James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981)
American Paintings: Abbott Handerson Thayer 1849-1921 (December 11, 1976 to April 18, 1977)
The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
