Large bowl, piece of rim missing

Object Details

• Description

  Light gray stoneware with incised decoration. A large, heavy bowl with straight rim and a carved footrim. Light gray stoneware, deep pink biscuit, grey inside the scar of the tubular kiln support. Covered with a crazed, olive green celadon glaze which stops short of the footrim. Turned lines below the rim and at the bottom of the cavetto enclose an incised trellis pattern on the cavetto. In the center is a circle. The outside wall with gouged vertical flutings and turned lines below the rim.

• Provenance

  1965

  Excavated from Ban Tao Thuriang, Thailand. [1]

  To 1969

  Charles Nelson Spinks. [2]

  From 1969

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Nelson Spinks. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Louise Cort’s note under Curatorial Remark 4 in the object record.

  [2] See Elizabeth Duley’s note under Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

  [3] See note 2.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Nelson Spinks (1906-1980)

• Origin

  Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Nelson Spinks

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Spinks, Charles Nelson

• Place

  Sukhothai, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)