Jar

Object Details

• Description

  Large, rounded vessel, tapering to a small flattened base. A large round mouth has a slightly out-flaring rim. Handbuilt of red-brown earthenware, smoothed on the surface and painted in linear designs with a dark brown-black slip.

• Label

  Earthenware decorated with geometric and figural painted designs in contrasting colors had a long history in northern and western Iran, appearing before 6000 B.C.E. in the earliest era of pottery making. Favored decorative schemes consisted of designs painted in black on a red surface, or in red or brown on a pale, buff surface. Patterns woven into baskets may lie behind the ornament on certain styles of painted Chalcolithic wares, of which this is a fine example.

• 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

  Shaping Clay in Ancient Iran (September 8, 2018 to November 24, 2020)

  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

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  BCE 5000s, BCE 3000s

• Name

  Hauge, Osborne and Gratia

• Topic

  Art, Hauge collection, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Chalcolithic period (5000 - 3500 BCE), Pottery, Ceramics

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)