Round box cover, knob missing

Object Details

• Provenance

  1974-October 1984

  Dean F. Frasché (1906-1994), collected in Thailand [1]

  From October 1984

  Freer Gallery of Art, Freer Study Collection, gift of Dean F. Frasché [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Freer Study Collection catalogue card, copy in object file.

  Dean F. Frasché was an American business executive who spent much of his working life in East Asia, and he was a well-known collector of Asian ceramics. His interest in ceramics began in the 1930s when he lived in the Philippines as a surveyor for the Belgian government. After World War II he ran Union Carbide Corporation's tin mining operations in Thailand. Frasché curated “Southeast Asian Ceramics: Ninth through Seventeenth Century” (Asia Society, New York, 1976), the first major exhibition of Southeast Asian ceramics in the United States, and also authored the accompanying exhibition catalogue. He acquired most of the Thai wares in his collection at or near their kiln sites. Objects from his collection may also be found at the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan. See David P. Rehfuss, "Ceramic Sherds from Southeast Asia—The Freer Study Collection and its Donors," Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia: Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2008, http://SEAsianCeramics.asia.si.edu.

  [2] See note 1.

  Research updated April 13, 2023

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean F. Frasche (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

  Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Containers