Covered box

Object Details

• Description

  Covered box with domed lid and bud-shaped knob.

  Clay: light gray stoneware with black flecks.

  Glaze: thin, transparent, crackled, somewhat degraded, greenish where thick on interior of body. Inside of lid, base and foot unglazed. Semicircular pontil scar on base.

  Decoration: painted in underglaze iron: concentric circles surrounding knob; vinescroll with large fanciful leaves, dotted background filling edge of lid and wall of body, overlapping seam; three horizontal lines at lower edge of vinescroll design.

  Mark: none.

• Provenance

  From ca. 1968

  Dorothy M. Slak, acquired ca. 1968 from Jakarta, Indonesia. [1]

  From 1986

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dorothy M. Slak, Sarasota, Florida. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 4 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ms. Dorothy M. Slak

• Origin

  Ban Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dorothy M. Slak

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1520s, 1580s

• Name

  Slak, Dorothy M.

• Place

  Ban Pa Yang kilns, Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Sawankhalok ware

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Containers