1934.45: Animal-Headed Ewer
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1934.45
- Title
- Animal-Headed Ewer
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Seljuk-Atabeg period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/217194
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Fritware molded relief decoration under turquoise glaze
- Dimensions
- 36.5 × 23 cm (14 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[M. Parish-Watson of Parish-Watson & Co., New York, by 1922]. Annie Swan Coburn, Chicago (by 1932), bequest; to the Fogg Museum, 1934.
Notes:
MacDermid Parish-Watson (1879–1941)
Annie Swan Coburn (Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn) (1856–1932)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Annie Swan Coburn
- Accession Year
- 1934
- Object Number
- 1934.45
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Head and body appear to be from two separate vessels.
Publication History
- Rudolf M. Riefstahl, The Parish-Watson Collection of Mohammadan Potteries, E. Weyhe Gallery (New York, 1922), pp. 193, 198, fig. 65, no. 38
Verification Level
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