Ewer with spout in the form of an elephant

Object Details

• Description

  Small ewer with elephant-headed spout, upright neck with everted rim, and carved foot

  CLAY: gray with black speckles

  GLAZE: opaque white glaze on neck and sculpted details of elephant features; mottled medium-brown glaze on body and elephant head; interior and base unglazed

  DECORATION: relief modeled details of elephant head and tail, with cord binding "body" at midpoint

  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 6 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

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean Frasché (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, 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, Thailand

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)