Jar
date: label: Date
content: 16th-17th century?
notes: label: Description
content: Oil-jar, tall, with ovoidal body tapering to the foot; three loop handles. Body impregnated with oil.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, gray-white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: originally deep leaf-green, crackled; russet brown and golden discolorations, slight iridescence, (broken and chipped).
label: Provenance
content: To 1905
label: Provenance
content: Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) Paris, to 1905 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1905 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing in 1905 [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] See Original Pottery List, L. 1373, 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: A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt (January 28, 2023 to 2025)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Power to See Beauty (October 14, 2017 to September 6, 2022)
label: Exhibition History
content: Freer & Whistler: Points of Contact (February 23, 2008 to January 3, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Art for Art's Sake (July 23, 1997 to January 24, 2008)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Syria
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Syria
label: Topic
content: Arts of the Islamic World
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
label: Topic
content: stone-paste
setName: label: On View
content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 20: A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt
label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
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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: F1905.61
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stone-paste painted under glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 49.2 × 30.1 cm (19 3/8 × 11 7/8 in)