Fragment of the shoulder of a large jar

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Fragment of the shoulder of a large, brown-glazed Khmer jar. The coil-built wall of the jar is approximately 1.0 cm thick.

  Clay: Rough, porous, dark-colored clay fired to a low stoneware temperature. The body of the jar is mostly a dark violet-brown except on the inner wall where it has reoxidized to a brick-red color.

  Glaze: Patchy, thin, iron-brown glaze that fired to an olive-drab color with many light splotches. A lump of kiln debris adhered to the glaze in the kiln.

  Decoration: Combed underglaze incising of vaguely floral designs, surmounted by five deeply incised rings on the shoulder of the jar.

  Marks: None.

• Provenance

  To 1957

  John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected between August 1956 and April 1957 in Angkor, Cambodia. [1]

  From 1957

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remarks 2 and 3 in the object record. See also “Ceramics in Mainland and Southeast Asia: Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery”, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1. See also object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. John Alexander Pope (1906-1982)

• Origin

  Cambodia or Northeast Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of John A. Pope

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1000s

• Name

  Pope, John Alexander

• Place

  Cambodia, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Angkor period (802 - 1431)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)