Lime-paste pot with bail handle and molded decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Lime pot of compressed globular form with a round hole on shoulder, high foot, flat base with shell scars, and a broad overhead stripe handle. Some lime residue inside the pot.

  Clay: grey stoneware; the base is fired to chocolate brown.

  Glaze: greenish translucent graze, appearing olive-green where applied over white slip on the body and blackish-brown where applied directly to the dark clay body on the handle, foot, and rosette. Base unglazed, with scars of sea shells around the perimeter.

  Decoration: a moulded floral rosette at central top of the lime pot, appendages attached at both ends of the handle.

• Provenance

  From 1974 to 2005

  Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]

  From 2005

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

  Notes:

  [1] Object file.

  According to note on the base of the pot: purchased in Saigon on 20 May 1974 at the shop of Mr. Cu at 100/80 B Nguyen Hue street, Gia Dinh district.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

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

• Origin

  Phu Yen province, Coastal, Central Vietnam

• 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

  1700s, 1940s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Vietnam, Phu Yen province, Coastal

• Topic

  Nguyen dynasty (1802 - 1945), Art, White slip, Hauge collection, Stoneware, Quang Duc ware, Southeast Asian Art, Glazed, Ceramics, Alkali-silicate glaze, Restored Later Le dynasty (1533 - 1782), Tay Son dynasty (1778 - 1802)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)