Fragment of the mouth and shoulder of a small bottle

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Mouth and roughly one-third of the shoulder of a small Sawankhalok celadon bottle. Thickness of the bottle wall is 0.4 - 0.5 cm except at the fracture line where it abruptly thins to 0.2 cm.

  Clay: The body is composed of a light gray, extremely fine-grained clay having very few inclusions.

  Glaze: The glaze is a high-quality, pale-green celadon which becomes a rich jade-like green where it pools in the incised areas of the decoration. The glaze extends down the short throat of the bottle and terminates 0.5 - 1.0 cm below the bottom of the throat.

  Decoration: The shoulder of the bottle was incised with a floral design with the petals radiating out from the bottom of the neck and terminating at two concentric circles on top of the shoulder.

  Marks: None.

• Provenance

  To 1956

  Charles Nelson Spinks (1906-1980), collected in Ban Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai (Sawankhalok), Thailand. [1]

  From 1956

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Nelson Spinks. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Study Collection catalogue card, Collections Management Office. See also Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Nelson Spinks (1906-1980)

• Origin

  Ban Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Nelson Spinks

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1600s, 1300s

• Name

  Spinks, Charles Nelson

• Place

  Ban Pa Yang kilns, Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)