Jar

Object Details

• Description

  Jar with short neck and flat base.

  Clay: pale gray, fine-grained.

  Glaze: translucent, ivory-toned, coarsely-crackled; appears heavier around the shoulder, as if applied in two coats, and milkier, as if underfired; glaze appears to have been ground off above edge of unglazed base. Interior glazed.

  Decoration: in dark blue underglaze cobalt. Single line at base of neck, from which four petal lappets project onto shoulder, their drawing obscured by the grainy and milky glaze.

  Mark: none.

• 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 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 Frasché (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

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  Hai Duong province, Vietnam, Red River Delta kilns

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Art, Later Le dynasty (1428 - 1527), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)