Jar

Object Details

• Description

  Small jar with conical neck, flattened body, and flat base.

  Clay: buff with black speckles.

  Glaze: clear, lustrous, reaching to near foot; interior and base unglazed.

  Decoration: in underglaze iron; wide single line around neck below rim; triple line around shoulder and triple line below midpoint of body defining panel of overlapping petal motifs.

  Mark: none.

• Provenance

  From 1964 to 1989

  Dean Frasché, Greenwich, CT, acquired from an unidentified shop in Sukhothai, Thailand, in 1964 [1]

  From 1989

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Dean Frasché in 1989

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 4 in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia (April 1, 2007 to December 4, 2011)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean Frasché (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Sawankhalok kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, North-central Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Clear glaze, Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Sawankhalok ware, Iron pigment

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)