Object Details
- Description
- Jar, small, ovoid
- Clay: dense, soft
- Glaze: lapis-lazuli blue with a thin green overflow; iridescent
- Label
- The Pewabic Pottery was a ceramics workshop in Detroit established at the turn of the century. The primary aesthetic interest of its founder, Mary Chase Perry Stratton, was the art of glazing, or "painting with fire." Stratton's friend and patron Charles Lang Freer fostered her efforts by providing fragments of ancient Asian pots to emulate. Her mature works are clearly inspired by the surfaces and shapes of ceramics in Freer's collection, particularly the Islamic pottery known as Raqqa ware, with its distinctive iridescence. The surfaces also resonate with paintings in Freer's collection by James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Dewing, and Dwight Tryon.
- Provenance
- To 1914
- Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, to 1914 [1]
- From 1914 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pewabic Pottery in 1914 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Object file. Present location of voucher unknown.
- [2] See note 1.
- [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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Freer’s Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers (October 15, 2022 - ongoing)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Figure (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)
- Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981)
- American Paintings (November 11, 1976 to October 12, 1978)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Pewabic Pottery (established 1903) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- ca. 1914
- Accession Number
- F1914.119
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Glazed clay
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 13.8 x 10 cm (5 7/16 x 3 15/16 in)
- Style
- Pewabic ware
- Origin
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- On View
- Freer Gallery 09: Freer’s Global Network
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- iridescence
- ceramic
- Pewabic ware
- United States
- glazed
- American Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1914.119
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye308ead2fa-f492-45d5-bb45-7477dc6136d5
