Bowl with design of floral spray

Object Details

• Description

  Creamy finely crackled light grey glaze, with underglaze iron black floral spray in interior center (on which are five pontil spur scars) and a narrow band of calligraphic decoration on interior next to rim and a wider band of similar decoration on exterior, both enclosed within pairs of concentric lines, chocolate brown bottom.

• Provenance

  To 1994

  John Forbes, Silver Spring, Maryland, acquired in Manila, to 1994 [1]

  From 1994

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from John Forbes in 1994

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 2 in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta (July 10, 2005 to November 15, 2009)

• Previous custodian or owner

  John Forbes

• Origin

  Red River Delta kilns, Hai Duong province, Vietnam

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Forbes, John

• Place

  Hai Duong province, Vietnam, Red River Delta kilns

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Tran dynasty (1225 - 1400), Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Flowers

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)