Bottle
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
label: Period
content: Safavid period
notes: label: Description
content: Bottle, globular, on a high foot.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, white, heavy.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant turquoise green with blue inside the neck; a very slight iridescence. Crackled and pitted.
label: Description
content: (Atil, 1973)
label: Description
content: Monochrome Safavid ceramics were not only limited to celadons, but also included turquoise, blue, green and brown glazed wares. This bottle with a globular body, tall and tapering neck and widening mouth is adorned with a simple molded ring encircling the upper portion of the neck. The turquiose-blue glaze is crackled and is also applied to the inner surface of the mouth.
label: Description
content: The shape of the bottle, or bottle-shaped vase, goes back to earlier metal prototypes and can be found in the eleventh or twelfth century (an identical shape occurs in a silver vessel from the Seljuk period in the Freer Gallery, no. 50.5). Similar bottles are frequently employed in miniature paintings depicting princely entertainment scenes from the fourteenth century onward. They are represented either as silver and gold vessels or as blue-and-white ceramics. The most popular period for these bottles, both in paintings and in ceramics, was the seventeenth century (Pope, Survey, pls.795-797 and 806B-809).
label: Description
content: Some of the ceramic examples are monochrome glazed; others are painted in luster, blue or polychrome colors while several show relief or pierced decorations. The body shapes vary slightly but the long tapered neck is always distinctly present (see No.93 for its representations on a plate).
label: Provenance
content: To 1906
label: Provenance
content: Julius Spier, London, to 1906 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1906 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Julius Spier in 1906 [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. 10, 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: Riza-i Abbasi Album (May 10, 1985 to September 3, 1985)
label: Exhibition History
content: Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Julius Spier (1848-1923) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Iran
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
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: F1906.14
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: 32.1 × 18 cm (12 5/8 × 7 1/16 in)