Wall tile (fragment)
date: label: Date
content: 12th-13th century
notes: label: Description
content: Fragment of a wall-tile (about one-third missing).
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, grayish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: silicious, colorless on relief portions, with silvery iridescence; dark-blue ground, crackled.
label: Description
content: Decoration: modelled in relief; part of an inscription.
label: Inscriptions
content: Contains partial inscription.
label: Provenance
content: To 1910
label: Provenance
content: Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company, Aleppo, Syria, to 1910 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1910 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vincenzo Marcopoli and Company in 1910 [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. 2065, as well as Voucher No. 44, May 1910, 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: Previous custodian or owner
content: Vincenzo Marcopoli (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Raqqa, Syria
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Syria
label: Topic
content: Raqqa ware
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: 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: F1910.33
objectType: label: Type
content: Architectural Element
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stone-paste moulded and decorated with glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 30.4 x 24.9 cm (11 15/16 x 9 13/16 in)
label: Style
content: Raqqa ware