Jar with two ornamental lugs, combed, and applied decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Heavily potted jar with ovoid body, short neck, everted mouth and flat base. Two nubs below neck at opposite sides.

  Clay: brown stoneware.

  Glaze: yellowish green, mottled, opaque, low lustre; falls short of foot, base and interior unglazed.

  Decoration: three raised bands round the shoulder and two of them round the lower body. Series of combed horiztonal and wavy lines on body.

• Provenance

  From at least 1975 to 2005

  Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]

  From 2005

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 2005

  Notes:

  [1] Object file.

  Acquired while Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge were living in Saigon (1972 or 1973-1975).

  According to Marie-France Dupoizat (see Published References), who visited the Hauges in the mid-1980s, the jars of this type were bought in Saigon in 1971.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge ((1914-2004) and (1907-2000))

• Origin

  Middle Mekong River network, Probably Southern Laos

• Credit Line

  Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1600s, 1900s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako, Hauge, Osborne and Gratia

• Place

  Middle Mekong River network, Laos

• Topic

  Art, Hauge collection, Stoneware, Wood-ash glaze, Lan Sang period (1271 - 1707), Champassak period (1713 - 1946), Southeast Asian Art

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)