Object Details
Description
Clay: dense.
Glaze: black, with dripping overflow of light green, blue and gold.
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
1918
Pewabic Pottery, 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] Object file.
[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
Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision (February 23, 2008 to August 1, 2010)
Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty (August 13, 2005 to September 17, 2006)
James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
Pewabic Pottery (November 20, 1979 to March 5, 1981)
American Paintings (November 11, 1976 to October 12, 1978)
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
Date
20th century
Accession Number
F1918.166
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Vessel
Medium
Glazed clay
Dimensions
H x Diam (overall): 31.1 x 31 cm (12 1/4 x 12 3/16 in)
Style
Pewabic ware
Origin
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Data Source
National Museum of Asian Art
Topic
iridescence
ceramic
Pewabic ware
United States
glazed
American Art
Charles Lang Freer collection
Link to Original Record
Record ID
fsg_F1918.166