Description
Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)To 1909Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]From 1909 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]From 1920Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:[1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 38, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).[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.
Glass
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Record Contributed By
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler GalleryRecord Harvested From
Smithsonian InstitutionKeywords
- Ancient Egyptian Art
- Art
- Dattari, Giovanni
- Egypt
- Egyptians
- Freer, Charles Lang
- Molding
- Roman Period (30 Bce 395 Ce)