Medium:

Stone-paste with manganese-purple glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 44.5 × 35.2 cm (17 1/2 × 13 7/8 in)

Style:

Raqqa ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Raqqa, Syria

Date:

13th century

Period:

Ayyubid period

Description:

Jar, large, ovoidal, on a low, thick foot rim.

Clay: soft, grayish.

Glaze: variable aubergine, frosted with whitish areas of partial disintegration, with a slight iridescence. Earthy attachments.

Decoration: impressed, incised and modelled in the paste.

Provenance:

To 1903

Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1903 [1]

From 1903 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, in November 1903 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Voucher No. 24, November 1903, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[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.

Collection:

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Exhibition History:

Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)

Previous custodian or owner:

Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

Ayyubid period (1171 - 1250)  Search this

Syria  Search this

Raqqa ware  Search this

Arts of the Islamic World  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1903.226

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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EDAN-URL:

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