Object Details
- Description
- Jar, tall, ovoid
- Clay: fairly soft
- Glaze: orange-red with overflow of greenish-cream; high purplish 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 1914
- Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI [1]
- 1914-1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pewabic Pottery [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Freer purchased the object on June 1, 1914 from Pewabic Pottery. See invoice from Pewabic Pottery, June 1, 1914, where the object is described as "1 pink jar," copy in object file.
- [2] See note 1. In the inventory Freer and his associates prepared for the Smithsonian Institution, the object is described as "One Tall, Ovoid Jar, with short neck and small mouth... Lustrous pink glaze, with rich cream-colored overflow around neck and shoulder." See 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 October 31, 2022.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art (April 29, 2023 - ongoing)
- Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision (February 23, 2008 to August 1, 2010)
- Winter into Spring: American Landscapes (March 4, 1982 to June 1, 1982)
- Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981)
- American Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (December 11, 1976 to March 24, 1977)
- 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
- Pewabic Pottery (established 1903) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- ca. 1914
- Accession Number
- F1914.117
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Glazed clay
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 32.1 x 22 cm (12 5/8 x 8 11/16 in)
- Style
- Pewabic ware
- Origin
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Related Online Resources
- Google Arts & Culture
- 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
- glazed
- American Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1914.117
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3cb22dc97-f633-46cc-965e-85675de1f237
