Cup

Object Details

• Description

  Cup with inverted plain rim, tapering body, and carved inset base.

  Clay: chalky white, fine-grained.

  Glaze: clear, slightly yellowish tone, matte surface; glaze on interior coarsely crackled. Trimmed off at edge of base before firing. Iron wash on base ("chocolate base").

  Decoration: in blue-gray underglaze, blackish where thick. Pair of double lines below rim, framing band of hatching; below, wide band of lotus vinescroll, above another double line; elongated petal lappets rising from base.

  Mark: none.

  Condition: small nick and hairline crack in rim.

• 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 3 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

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• 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, Lotus, Iron pigment, Mac dynasty (1527 - 1592), Restored Later Le dynasty (1533 - 1782)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)