Jar with combed decoration

Object Details

• Description

  This jar was broadly broken (in shipping?) and repaired.

• Label

  Decoration on Khmer stoneware ceramics focused on linear patterns incised or stamped into the soft clay of the vessel just after it was formed. The person who made the pot probably decorated it as well, spinning the vessel on the wheel to incise horizontal lines that emphasized the rim, neck, shoulder, and base. Comb-shaped tools produced bands of horizontal lines, either straight or wavy.

• Provenance

  From circa 1970-72 to 1996

  Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]

  From 1996

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge in 1996 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file.

  Most likely acquired from a dealer in Ayutthaya or Bangkok, circa 1970-1972.

  [2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between the Hauge families.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Glazed Elephant: Traditions in Cambodia (April 15, 2017 to July 17, 2018)

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

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Victor and Takako Hauge ((1919-2013) and (1923-2015))

• Origin

  Cambodia or Northeast Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1400s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• 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)