Portion of large two-color jar

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

  Ban Kruat kilns, Buriram province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s, 1000s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

  Buriram province, Thailand, Ban Kruat kilns

• Topic

  Ban Kruat ware, Art, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Angkor period (802 - 1431)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)