Baluster-form bottle with a long neck and everted flanged rim

Object Details

• Description

  Bottle with pedestal foot, ovoid body, elongated neck, and everted rim with flange.

  Wheel-thrown from flat disk and coils; assembled from separate body and foot; neck probably thrown from coil added to shoulder of vessel. Base flat, slightly wrinkled; trace of seam where coil joined around circumference. Neck broken and reattached, but appears to be original to piece. Vessel is heavy in proportion to size.

  Clay: stoneware, medium gray where exposed, lighter gray where revealed by deteriorating glaze.

  Decoration: On flattened shoulder, band of loosely scalloped combing with points facing downward. Horizontal row of individually applied buttons of clay, pressed into place with hollow cylindrical tool, creating raised central "dot" and circumference. Some buttons overlap where they were squeezed together.

  Glaze: iron glaze, opaque, nearly black, with dull luster; very thick on shoulder, concealing combed design; extensively deteriorated over ornamental ridges and applied buttons; flaking especially on body; kiln debris adhering to shoulder. Glaze once extended to very edge of pedestal base. Runs only slightly into narrow neck.

• 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

• 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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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1400s

• Name

  Hauge, Osborne and Gratia

• Place

  Cambodia, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Hauge collection, Stoneware, Brown and black glaze, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Angkor period (802 - 1431)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)