Figure of a nesting bird

Object Details

• Description

  Small figure of a nesting bird

  Clay: medium brown stoneware with black speckles

  Glaze: mottled iron glaze, ranging from ochre to chocolate in color, covering upper portion of figure, ending irregularly, partially covering base

  Decoration: eyes applied as beads of clay

  Mark: none

• Provenance

  From 1964

  Dean Frasché, purchased in 1964 from Sukhothai, Thailand. [1]

  To 1989

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

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 4 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

  Ban Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Sculpture

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  Ban Pa Yang kilns, Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Animals, Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Stoneware, Brown and black glaze, Birds, Southeast Asian Art, Sawankhalok ware

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Sculpture