Dish: a deep bowl with stem-shaped base and flaring foot; plaster repairs.
Clay: soft, gray.
Glaze: very pale green, discolored and largely disintegrated.
Decoration: painted in brown lustre over glaze.
Provenance:
To 1910
Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company, Aleppo, Syria, to 1910 [1]
From 1910 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company in 1910 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2066, as well as Voucher No. 44, May 1910, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Curatorial Remark 3, in an undated
note Charles Lang Freer states: " Interesting in form and coloring and closely related to S.I. 1428 (10.28) and S.I. 1432 (10.32). All of these three pieces were purchased by me in Aleppo during trip 1909-1910,--they were brought to Aleppo by the same caravan and unpacked and repaired during my visit."
[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.
