H x Diam (overall): 5.4 x 9.8 cm (2 1/8 x 3 7/8 in)
Style:
Pewabic ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date:
ca. 1912
Description:
American, 20th century, Early Pewabic
Bowl, small, deep
Clay: dense
Glaze: mingled green and gray, with a high golden iridescence.
Inscriptions:
- Rectangular sticker affixed to base of vessel, "2355" printed in black ink
- Rectangular sticker affixed to base of vessel, "3588" printed in black ink
- Round sticker affixed to base of vessel, "Pewabic Detroit" printed in black ink, "450 14" written in pencil in center
- Round sticker affixed to base of vessel, "Pewabic Detroit" printed in black ink, "450 14" written in pencil in center
Provenance:
To 1912
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan, 1912 [1]
1912-1920
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See receipt from Pewabic Pottery to Charles L. Freer, August 7, 1912 (received August 12, 1912), Box 119, Folder 4, Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC copy in object file. On the receipt, there is an annotation next to the object's description, noting "no charge."
[2] See voucher No. 10, August 9, 1912, Box 119, Folder 4, Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC copy in object file.
[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.
Research completed July 28, 2022.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
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)
Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981)
American Paintings: Abbott Handerson Thayer 1849-1921 (December 11, 1976 to April 18, 1977)
