Round box with design of floral spray

Object Details

• Description

  Round box with domed lid, tapering body, and flat base.

  Clay: pale gray, fine-grained.

  Glaze: clear, shiny, over white slip on exterior; thin, mottled grayish on inside of body and lid; base unglazed. Debris adhering to base.

  Decoration: in underglaze cobalt. Abstract floral spray on top of lid, without enclosing rings.

  Mark: none.

• Provenance

  From 1958 to 1989

  Dean Frasché, Greenwich, CT, acquired in Jakarta in 1958 [1]

  From 1989

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Dean Frasché in 1989

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 3 in object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta (July 10, 2005 to November 15, 2009)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean Frasché (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Red River Delta kilns, Hai Duong province, Vietnam

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1550s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  Hai Duong province, Vietnam, Red River Delta kilns

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Art, Clear glaze, White slip, Later Le dynasty (1428 - 1527), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Flowers

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Containers