Figure of a pair of fighting elephants

Object Details

• Description

  Small figurine of pair of fighting elephants on rectangular base

  Clay: buff with black speckles

  Glaze: thin mottled iron glaze, olive-brown to dark brown, covering upper portion of figures; lower portion and base unglazed

  Decoration: modeled details of eyes, ears, tails

  Mark: none

• Provenance

  From 1957 to 1989

  Dean Frasché, Greenwich, CT, acquired in Sawankhalok, Thailand, in 1957 [1]

  From 1989

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Dean Frasché in 1989

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note3 in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Ceramics from Thailand (July 1, 2013 to March 2, 2014)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean F. Frasche (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Ban Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, North-central Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Sculpture

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1520s, 1560s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

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

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Sculpture