Jar with four horizontal lugs

Object Details

• Description

  Large storage jar with small trumpet shaped mouth and rolled rim, ridge at base of neck, four lugs high on shoulder, narrow body, and broad flat base, rattan handles and lid.

  Body: reddish-brown stoneware.

  Glaze: iron glaze, lustrous black on "hot" side of jar, running down in muliple drips to edge of base; on "cool" side of jar, ochre mottled with black on shoulder and upper body, ochre on lower body; on that side are visible, below flowing lower edge of glaze, horizontal brushmarks where undercoat of glaze was brushed on, ranging from thin brown to thicker ochre. nterior and base unglazed.

  Decoration: none.

  Accessories: cylindrical coiled rattan lid with flat top, loop in center attached to five-link chain of plaited bamboo loops; other end of chain attached to rattan bail handle attached to adjacent lugs by plaited bamboo loops; indentical bail handle attached to other two lugs. Lid made in the Philippines.

• Provenance

  ?-?

  Unidentified individual, Tawit barrio, Pudtol municipality, Kalinga-Apayao province, Philippines, probably by descent through their family [1]

  ?-June 1988

  Unidentified dealer, Baguio, Luzon Island, Philippines, acquired from Unidentified individual, Tawit barrio, Pudtol municipality, Kalinga-Apayao province, Philippines in Philippines [2]

  June 1988-1989

  John Forbes, acquired from Unidentified dealer, Baguio, Luzon Island, Philippines in the Baguio, Luzon Island, Philippines [3]

  From 1989

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from John Forbes [4]

  Notes:

  [1] See Louise Cort’s object record sheet remark, dated 1989, copy in object file.

  See also letter from John Forbes to Louise Cort, dated September 27, 1988, copy in object file. The jar was located in June 1988 by John Forbes at a dealer in the hill resort of Baguio, Luzon Island, the Philippines. Forbes alerted Curator Louise Cort of the jar's availability in his letter dated September 27, 1988.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See note 1.

  John D. Forbes is a consultant on trade and investment in the Philippines and a collector of ceramics. Born in Pennsylvania, Forbes attended Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Princeton University, and Harvard University. Forbes was a Foreign Service Officer for the US Department of State from 1967 until 1991 and he served in embassies in Vietnam, Philippines, and Jamaica. Since 1996, he has resided in Manila. Objects from his collection may also be found in the Ayala Museum, Manila.

  [4] See note 1. John Forbes facilitated the Freer Gallery's purchase of the jar, including acquiring clearance by the National Museum in Manila.

  Research updated April 14, 2023

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)

• Previous custodian or owner

  John Forbes

• Origin

  Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Forbes, John

• Place

  Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Sawankhalok ware, Bamboo

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)