Covered box

Object Details

• Description

  Small round box with domed lid, mangosteen fruit stalk handle with four sepals, rounded base, flat bottom.

  Clay: coarse, buff to orange, with black specks.

  Glaze: clear, brittle glaze on outside of body and lid; caramel glaze on handle; matte brown glaze inside body; inside of lid, lower body, and base unglazed. Decomposition on body only; lid and body may not match.

  Decoration: in iron pigment, under glaze. Two lines circling handle of lid; lower lid and upper body decorated with undulating line and circles; two lines below design, coinciding with lower edge of glaze.

• Provenance

  From 1959

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1959 from Sawankhalok kiln site, 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 F. Frasche (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

  Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Fruit, Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Stoneware, Brown and black glaze, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Sawankhalok ware, Iron pigment

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Containers