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At A Glance

Period

1075-1430
Geography

Cambodia or Northeast Thailand
Material

Stoneware with iron glaze
Dimension

H x Diam (overall): 48.4 x 35.7 cm (19 1/16 x 14 1/16 in)
Accession Number

S1996.115
EDAN ID

edanmdm:fsg_S1996.115

Object Details

Description

Vat with cylindrical body slightly wider in upper body in shoulder, tall angled shoulder, short neck, verted rim with flange. Wheel-thrown from coil added to flat base. Base flat, relatively smooth, one large chip from edge. Wall possibly constructed in three sections (with drying time between additions), plus shoulder and neck.

Clay: stoneware. deep reddish-brown where exposed, slightly lighter color on base.

Decoration: at base, straight upright trim at foot, above which is a series of seven evenly-spaced bevels. Main body of vessel undecorated. On upper wall below curve of shoulder, deep band of scalloped combing made with four-toothed combing tool, rounded upper arches and long spikes pointing straight downward. Just above, as wall curves inward, broad band crated by nine parallel incised horizontal lines. Shoulder undecorated. At base of neck, row of scalloped combing done with three-toothed combing tool, scallops compressed with spikes pointing dowward to right. Two incised horizontal lines around base of neck. Low neck everts to thick, wide rim with flange.

Glaze: iron glaze, mostly translucent cool brown, with thicker, darker streaks as well as streaks of ochre yellow, especially in glaze caught in bevels above foot. Glaze on shoulder and rim is thicker, uniformly darker tone. Glaze over entire interior, thicker on upper wall and ending in even horizontal line, suggesting that vessel was dipped upside down into vat of glaze. In addition, streaks and rivulets of glaze (some ochre yellow) all the way to vessel bottom.
Provenance

?-2005

Mr. and Mrs. Osborne (1914-2004) and Gratia Hauge (d. 2000) [1]

From 2005

The National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, by gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge [2]

Notes:

[1] The Hauge family began collecting Asian paintings, sculpture, and ceramics in the late 1940s and would amass a large collection in the post-World War II years.

[2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between members of the Hauge families. See Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, copy in object file. From 2005-2023 the work was part of the National Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection and on March 21, 2023, the work was internally transferred to the National Museum of Asian Art Collection.
Collection

National Museum of Asian Art Collection
Exhibition History

Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia (April 1, 2007 to December 4, 2011)

The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery (October 30, 2005 to March 19, 2006)

Asian Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts (October 29, 2000 to April 22, 2001)
Previous custodian or owner

Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge ((1914-2004) and (1907-2000))
Origin

Cambodia or Northeast Thailand
Credit Line

Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge
Type

Vessel
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