Object Details
- Description
- Dish: low, round, with straight sides. Clay: soft, thickly molded. Glaze: deep, greenish-blue. Decoration: Hathor head and floral motives painted in outline, in manganese, over glaze.
- Label
- Faience bowls with black-painted decoration were probably used to hold food or liquid offerings to the goddess Hathor, who nourished and protected the dead.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Maurice Nahman, Cairo, in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1984, 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
- A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt (January 28, 2023 to 2025)
- Charles Lang Freer and Egypt (June 13, 1998 to October 2, 2011)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Maurice Nahman (1868-1948) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1550-1070 BCE
- Period
- New Kingdom
- Accession Number
- F1909.145
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Faience with manganese paint
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 4.5 x 15 x 15 cm (1 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in)
- Origin
- Egypt
- On View
- Freer Gallery 20: A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- faience
- New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)
- Egypt
- Hathor
- Ancient Egyptian Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1909.145
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3147e2feb-7fcf-4a54-b9f2-21990bee2b24
