Bowl with incised decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Round bowl, almost hemispherical in shape, with a flat base, and slightly incurving rim. Incised on the exterior with a broad lotus petal design on the lower body, and covered inside and out with a brown-green glaze. Base is unglazed. Pronounced crackle to the glaze. One side of the bowl is slightly dented and has a firing flaw/contact mark from leaning against another vessel in the kiln.

  This small bowl with inverted rim was decorated before glazing with eight lotus petals rising from the base, casually incised with double lines. Horizontal double lines ring the mouth and the widest point of the body. Numerous specks of iron have bled into the glossy, olive-green celadon glaze. The flat base is unglazed; the bottom bears five triangular spur marks inside an incised ring.

• 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] According to the proprietors of the Chao Phraya Gallery, this object came from a collector who had acquired it in Indonesia around 1982 (see Curatorial Note 3, Louise Cort, December 19, 1997).

• 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

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s, 1300s

• Name

  Chao Phraya Gallery

• Place

  Hai Duong province, Vietnam, Red River Delta kilns

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)