Covered box

Object Details

• Description

  Small round box with flat lid, tapering body, and flat base.

  Clay: pale gray, fine-grained.

  Glaze: translucent white, matte on outside; thin, shiny glaze on interior of body and lid; base unglazed.

  Decoration: in underglaze cobalt. On lid, double ring defining flattened top, on which is a large single flower with leaves. On the edge of the lid, four panels containing trailing cloud patterns, offset by cross-hatching on ground; single line above edge. On base, three trailing cloud motifs framed by single line below rim and single line near base.

  Mark: none.

  Condition: base broken and repaired.

• Provenance

  From 1964

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1964 from Jogjakarta, Indonesia. [1]

  To 1989

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dean Frasché, Greenwich, Connecticut. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

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

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean F. Frasche (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Red River Delta kilns, Hai Duong province, Vietnam

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1400s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

  Hai Duong province, Vietnam, Red River Delta kilns

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Art, Clear glaze, Later Le dynasty (1428 - 1527), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Mac dynasty (1527 - 1592), Restored Later Le dynasty (1533 - 1782)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Containers