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Description:: Ovoidal body, bold convex foot, cylindrical neck and two loop handles. Decoration: incised in the paste.; Clay: fairly hard, white. Glaze: originally green, now decomposed to a whitish tone; silver iridescence.

Provenance:: To 1905; Kalebjian, Paris, to 1905 [1]; From 1905 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Kalebjian in 1905 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 1414, 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.

Exhibition History:: A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt (January 28, 2023 to 2025); The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing); The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019); The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016); America Meets Asia at the Freer Gallery of Art (May 9, 1993 to June 2, 1998)