Covered box with interior tray

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: light gray stoneware with fine black scattered inclusions.

  Glaze: clear, colorless glaze, slighty milky in areas, on exterior of body (except around neck and on base) and on exterior of lid (except center). Mottled dark brown glaze on defined circular area in center of lid, including knob. Thinner brown glaze on interior of body and upper surface of tray. Base of body, inside of lid, and lower surface of tray unglazed.

  Decoration: painted in underglaze blackish-brown pigment, which appears bluish under milky glaze. The brush appears to have been stiff and blunt. On lid, ring of flower petals facing outward around central brown-glazed medallion, framed by concentric lines. On body, a wide band of leafy vine scroll centered on the shoulder, framed by three horizontal lines above and four below.

• Provenance

  From circa 1966-1970 to 1994

  Ken J.J. Baars, Surrey, England, acquired from a private source in Southeast Asia, circa 1966-1970 [1]

  From 1994

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Ken J.J. Baars in 1994

  Notes:

  [1] According to a statement from Ken J.J.Baars, dated November 12, 1991 (see Curatorial Note 8 in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ken J.J. Baars

• Origin

  Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1520s, 1560s

• Name

  Baars, Ken J.J.

• Place

  Pa Yang kilns, Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Clear glaze, Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Stoneware, Brown and black glaze, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Sawankhalok ware, Iron pigment

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)