Kiln-stacking tool: flat clay disk with five attached feet (one missing)

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At A Glance

  • Period

    early 9th-early 15th century
  • Geography

    Cambodia
  • Accession Number

    FSC-P-2961
  • EDAN ID

    edanmdm:fsg_FSC-P-2961

Object Details

  • Provenance

    From 1974 to 1984
    Dean Frasché (1906-1994), collected at a kiln site or sites in Ban Kruat, Buriram province, Thailand in May 1974. [1]
    From 1984
    Freer Gallery Study Collection, gift of Dean Frasché. [2]
    Notes:
    [1] See Study Collection catalogue card, Collections Management Office. According to Dean F. Frasché, Southeast Asian Ceramics: Ninth through Seventeenth Centuries (New York: The Asian Society in association with John Weatherhill, Inc., 1976). The author summarizes the knowledge of the Ban Kruat kilns as of 1976 on p. 31, note 6.
    [2] See object record.
  • Collection

    Freer Study Collection
  • Previous custodian or owner

    Dean F. Frasche (1906-1994)
  • Origin

    Cambodia
  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dean Frasché
  • Type

    Tool and Equipment
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