Cup

Object Details

• Description

  Small conical cup with narrow mouth, plain rim, broad base, and carved foot

  CLAY: dark reddish-brown; circular black scar on base inside footrim

  GLAZE: milky, blue-gray where thick; covering outside over foot and bottom of inside; base unglazed

  DECORATION: in underglaze iron; four lines below rim; vinescrolls enclosing three large full-face flowers with twisting petals; four lines above the foot.

  MARK: none

• Provenance

  From 1957

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1957 from Sawankhalok, 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

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

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

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

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)