Bottle

Object Details

Description: Bottle, tall; Clay: fairly soft; Glaze: mottled violet and violet-gray; iridescent
Provenance: To 1908; Mary Chase Perry Stratton (1867-1961), Detroit, to 1908 [1]; From 1908 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Mary Chase Perry Stratton in 1908 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] See American Pottery List, R. 5534, L. 2285, 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: Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art (April 29, 2023 - ongoing); Painting with Fire (October 21, 2018 to July 7, 2019); Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision (February 23, 2008 to August 1, 2010); James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Figure (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984); American Painting: To Dream of Fair Women (September 24, 1982 to February 29, 1984); Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981); American Paintings (April 15, 1975 to December 5, 1975); Drawings by James McNeill Whistler (August 1, 1974 to April 14, 1975)
Previous custodian or owner: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

ca. 1908

On View: Sackler Gallery 26: Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art
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; American Art; Charles Lang Freer collection

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3f03bef1c-f216-4944-8c4e-9e3ecbe409b7