Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Small shallow dish with plain rim on everted foot.

  Clay: light gray, medium texture.

  Glaze: translucent grayish-green glaze, coarsely crackled, covering inside and outside of dish and outside of foot; inside of foot unglazed. Surface of glaze abraded and worn on inside, especially near center.

  Decoration: none.

  Mark: single line incised across diameter of foot.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean Frasché (1906-1994)

• 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 5 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

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

• Origin

  Thung Hua kilns, Lampang province, Northern Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1400s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  Thung Hua kilns, Lampang province, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Kalong ware, Lan Na period (1251 - 1774)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)