Vase, ovoidal with trumpet neck (restored), and spreading foot. Formerly four knobs and four openings of bobeche form on the shoulder; one of the latter remaining
Clay: soft, gray.
Glaze: greenish-white, crazed, discolored and modified by incipient disintegration; silvery iridescence.
Decoration: outlines incised; painted in blue and aubergine (slight) under glaze.
Provenance:
Excavated in Coone, spring of 1908 [1]
To 1908
Ferandzi Teheranj, Istanbul, to 1908 [2]
From 1908 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ferandzi Teheranj, in Istanbul, in summer of 1908 [3]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
Notes:
[1] According to Curatorial Remark 1, an undated note from Charles Land Freer, in the object record: "This jar was excavated at Coone, an old destroyed town near Teheran during the Spring of 1908, and was brought to Constantinople by a Persian named Ferandzi Teheranji, from whom I purchased it in one of the Khans of Constantinople, during trip, summer of 1908." See a note within Curatorial Remark 1 (undated, by G.D.G.), wherein it is suggested that Coone is possibly the town of Kum (Qum).
[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1812, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[3] See note 2.
[4] 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.
