Covered box

Object Details

• Description

  Covered box (a) with domed lid (b), straight sides widening slightly toward top, and rounded base.

  Clay: light gray with areas of reddish-brown oxidation on base and edges, indicating position of clay balls used to separate lid and body during firing.

  Glaze: transluscent, thin olive green, scratched and abraded; three large round stacking scars on base.

  Decoration: none.

  Mark: none.

• Provenance

  From 1957

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1957 from Nakorn Kasem, Bangkok, Thailand. [1]

  To 1989

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

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 2 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

  Zhejiang province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 800s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

  China, Zhejiang province

• Topic

  Yue ware, Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Tang dynasty (618 - 907), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Containers