Bottle (neck missing) with unrelated lid

Object Details

• Description

  Jar with two-color glaze (neck missing) and unrelated lid. Wheel-thrown from coil added to flat disk, as single continuous vessel. Flat base, wrinkled texture, slightly concave center; during firing base fractured into circular crack in center of base, four straight cracks radiating out to edge of base; light visible through hole when looking down through vessel. Ovoid vessel with widest diameter at high shoulder. Original shape of neck unknown.

  (1) Vessel

  Clay: stoneware, sandy, light gray clay, seemingly laminated with pale gray clay that serves as ground for ash glaze on neck (edge of lamination visible inside opening).

  Decoration:

  On base, trimmed rounded edge near bottom, diminishing steps on tapering wall, V-shaled bevel forming visual base of vessel proper (although interior is continuous). Incised double line on shoulder just above widest diameter. At base of (broken) neck, band of scalloped combing (made with four-toothed comb), small-scale, neat, pointing downward.

  Glaze: On vessel, iron glaze, thin, opaque, lusterless blackish brown, running down to edge of base but wiped off along part of pedestal foot. On neck, ash glaze, translucent, lustrous, crackled pale green, edge touching tops of scalloped combing on one side, suggesting that vessel was dipped upside down into vat of ash glaze, but was not held exactly perpendicular. Almost no overlap of two glazes.

  (2) Lid

  Wheel-thrown off the hump (small round scar in center of base where finished form was cut off), with flat base, everted edge with upward flange enclosing flat, sunken top, from center of which rises narrow post supporting conical knob.

  Stoneware, brownish gray where exposed, medium gray where visible in chips or beneath flaking glaze.

  Bands of incised and stamped decoration on knob.

  Iron glaze, medium brown and translucent where thin, darker where thick, on upper surface, irregularly overlapping everted edge.

• 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, Green glaze, Stoneware, Wood-ash glaze, Brown and black glaze, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Angkor period (802 - 1431)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)