Object Details
- Description
- Early Pewabic jar: tall, ovoid.
- Clay: dense.
- Glaze: gray with an overflow of mingled blue and green; slight iridescence.
- 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 1918
- Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, to 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] See American Pottery List, L. 2605, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [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
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
- Art for Art's Sake (July 23, 1997 to January 24, 2008)
- The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
- 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. 1918
- Accession Number
- F1918.163
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Glazed earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W: 62.4 x 31.2 cm (24 9/16 x 12 5/16 in)
- Style
- Pewabic ware
- Origin
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- On View
- Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America
- 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
- earthenware
- glazed
- American Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1918.163
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3b88e9d1b-6d4f-48c8-8ce3-77cfb228db65
