Fragment of a foreleg of an elephant

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Irregular fragment of the foreleg of a modelled ceramic elephant. The fragment is 4.2 cm in diameter at the top and tapers to a diameter of 1.3 cm at the bottom.

  Clay: Coarse light gray clay with many large inclusions, some approaching the size of small pebbles. There are significant air pockets and fissures leading from the surface to the interior of the shard body.

  Glaze: Olive-green, crackled celadon glaze that has adhered well but is of uneven thickness.

  Decoration: None.

  Marks: in pencil on a broken edge of the shard.

• Marks

  "ATP" presumably standing for "Angkor Thom Pool" is written in pencil on a broken edge of the shard.

• 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 Remark 2 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

  Ban Kruat kilns, Buriram province, Northeast Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of John A. Pope

• Type

  Sculpture

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Pope, John Alexander

• Place

  Buriram province, Thailand, Ban Kruat kilns

• Topic

  Ban Kruat ware, Art, Animals, Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Angkor period (802 - 1431), Elephants

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Tax Class

  Mammalia

• Tax Order

  Proboscidea

• Tax Family

  Elephantidae

• Tax Phylum

  Chordata

• Common Name

  Elephants

• Object Type

  Sculpture

• Tax Kingdom

  Animalia