Bowl
date: label: Date
content: 2nd half of the 17th century
label: Period
content: Safavid period
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl, deep, ovoidal; bold foot, pierced with two holes; cracked and repaired.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, sonant.
label: Description
content: Glaze: cream-white.
label: Description
content: Decoration: painted in gold-colored lustre over glaze.
label: Provenance
content: To 1903
label: Provenance
content: Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1903 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1903 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian in 1903 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 1216, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Iran
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Safavid period (1501 - 1722)
label: Topic
content: Iran
label: Topic
content: Arts of the Islamic World
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
label: Topic
content: stone-paste
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: The Story of the Beautiful
label: See more items in
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1903.7
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stone-paste painted with lustre over glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 9.3 × 18.4 cm (3 11/16 × 7 1/4 in)