Jar (fragment)
date: label: Date
content: 11th-12th century
notes: label: Description
content: Jar, three handled, heavy semi-ovoidal form. One handle missing. Bottom incased in a copper base.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, light-buff.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant blue green, crackled; almost lost under areas of partial disintegration; brilliant iridescence.
label: Provenance
content: To 1904
label: Provenance
content: Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Paris, France to 1904 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1904 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, Paris, in 1904 [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 Voucher No. 1, September 1904, L. 1306, 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: 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: 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: 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: F1904.170
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stone-paste decorated with glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 34.8 × 27.7 cm (13 11/16 × 10 15/16 in)
label: Style
content: Raqqa ware