Tile
date: label: Date
content: 14th or 17th century
label: Period
content: Ottoman period
notes: label: Description
content: Tile: small, hexagonal; beveled edges.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, sandy, buff.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant dark green with blue reflections; pitted and scratched.
label: Description
content: Decoration: an inscription painted in gray (or white) over glaze.
label: Provenance
content: To 1903
label: Provenance
content: Unidentified private dealer, Paris, to 1903 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1903 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from an unidentifed private dealer in Paris, through Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Paris, in 1903 [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, November 1903, L. 1237, 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: Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Turkey
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Ottoman period (1307 - 1922)
label: Topic
content: Turkey
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
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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: F1903.198
objectType: label: Type
content: Architectural Element
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stone-paste painted under glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12.5 x 1.6 cm (4 15/16 x 5/8 in)