H x Diam (overall): 3 x 9.4 cm (1 3/16 x 3 11/16 in)
Style:
Pewabic ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date:
ca. 1912
Description:
American, 20th century, Early Pewabic
Bowl, shallow, flaring. Broken and repaired
Clay: dense
Glaze: turquoise green, crackled, on the inside; outside, iridescent copper-red.
Label:
The Pewabic Pottery was a ceramics workshop in Detroit established at the turn of the century. The primary aesthetic interest of its founder, Mary Chase Perry Stratton, was the art of glazing, or "painting with fire." Stratton's friend and patron Charles Lang Freer fostered her efforts by providing fragments of ancient Asian pots to emulate. Her mature works are clearly inspired by the surfaces and shapes of ceramics in Freer's collection, particularly the Islamic pottery known as Raqqa ware, with its distinctive iridescence. The surfaces also resonate with paintings in Freer's collection by James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Dewing, and Dwight Tryon.
Provenance:
1912
Pewabic Pottery, 1912 [1]
From 1912 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Pewabic Pottery in 1912 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] Object file.
[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:
American Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (December 11, 1976 to March 24, 1977)
