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Object Details
- Description
- Early Pewabic jar.
- Clay: dense.
- Glaze: gray-green with an overflow of faint pink.
- Provenance
- 1918
- Pewabic Pottery, 1918 [1]
- From 1918 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pewabic Pottery in 1918 [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
- Dewing’s Poetic World (November 27, 2019 to May 29, 2022)
- Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty (August 13, 2005 to September 17, 2006)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
- Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981)
- American Paintings (November 11, 1976 to October 12, 1978)
- The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Pewabic Pottery (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- ca. 1918
- Accession Number
- F1918.162
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Glazed clay
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 16.3 x 12.7 cm (6 7/16 x 5 in)
- Style
- Pewabic ware
- Origin
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- 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
- ceramic
- Pewabic ware
- United States
- glazed
- American Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1918.162
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3fb2eb053-8fc9-4bd2-87a3-9c4cae5e079f
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