Jar with incised and inlaid decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Large glazed round jar, with wide mouth, thick out-turned rim and flat base. Creamy gray-white glaze on the exterior and interior, except for the base and interior bottom. Decorated on the exterior with incised lines forming "panels," within which large floral designs are executed in brown glaze. Two small holes punched through on the upper shoulder of one side.

  A wide-mouthed jar with four ornamented panels and a broad, flat base. The decoration is cut into the soft clay through the just-applied raw glaze and painted with iron pigment. The glaze on this jar fired to pale yellow-green.

• Provenance

  To 1998

  Chao Phraya Gallery, Washington, DC, acquired from an unidentified collector, to 1998 [1]

  From 1998

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Chao Phraya Gallery in 1998

  Notes:

  [1] The Chao Phraya proprietors explained that this object came from the collection of an Australian ambassador to Vietnam around 1982 (see Curatorial Note 11, Louise Cort, December 19, 1997, 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)

  Beyond the Legacy--Anniversary Acquisitions of the Freer Gallery of Art (October 11, 1998 to April 11, 1999)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Chao Phraya Gallery

• Origin

  Red River Delta kilns, Hai Duong province, Vietnam

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by the Docents of the National Museum of Asian Art

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1200s

• Name

  Chao Phraya Gallery

• 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)