Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  This bowl has a flattened rim and a ring foot. The decoration includes a white background and blue vertical stripes which end in a circle inside the bottle [sic] of the vessel, and at the ring foot on the outside of the vessel. The flattened rim is blue.

• 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

  Gyroscope (July 19, 2004 to July 24, 2005)

  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

  Kashan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Hauge, Osborne and Gratia

• Place

  Kashan

• Topic

  Art, Hauge collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Stone-paste, Ceramics

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)