H x Diam (overall): 13.8 x 10 cm (5 7/16 x 3 15/16 in)
Style:
Pewabic ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date:
ca. 1914
Description:
Jar, small, ovoid
Clay: dense, soft
Glaze: lapis-lazuli blue with a thin green overflow; iridescent
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:
To 1914
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, to 1914 [1]
From 1914 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pewabic Pottery in 1914 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] Object file. Present location of voucher unknown.
[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:
Freer’s Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers (October 15, 2022 - ongoing)
James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Figure (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)
Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981)
American Paintings (November 11, 1976 to October 12, 1978)
