Lobed bottle in the form of a pear

Object Details

• Description

  Small pear-shaped eight-lobed bottle with flat base.

  Clay: pale gray, fine-grained.

  Glaze: thin translucent glaze with blue-gray tinge, surface densely covered by fine abrasions; base unglazed.

  Decoration: in bright to dark blue underglaze cobalt. Below present rim, two sets of double lines framing band of geometrical patterns. Vertical lines drawn approximately over eight gentle indentations in widest part of body creating eight lobes, ending at top in alternating Y-shape or cloud-collar shape; defined top and bottom by single line.

  Mark: none.

  Condition: neck ground down.

• Provenance

  From 1947

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1947 from Batavia. [1]

  To 1989

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

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 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

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)