Bottle
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
label: Period
content: Safavid period
notes: label: Description
content: Bottle of squat-ovoidal form; lip cracked.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, translucent, white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: luminous lettuce-white.
label: Description
content: Decoration: incised in the paste under glaze.
label: Provenance
content: To 1903
label: Provenance
content: Henry G. Marquand (1819-1902), New York, NY, to 1903 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1903 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at auction, Henry G. Marquand Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, in New York, January 23, 1903, no. 1004 [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,
label: Provenance
content: No. 1219, 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: Visual Poetry: Paintings and Drawings from Iran (December 16, 2001 to May 5, 2004)
label: Exhibition History
content: Bicentennial Exhibition: Near Eastern and Indian Art (December 15, 1975 to November 10, 1976)
label: Exhibition History
content: Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819-1902)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: American Art Association (established 1883) (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
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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: F1903.4
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: 10.8 × 11.6 cm (4 1/4 × 4 9/16 in)