Jar with combed decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Jar of globular form with short neck, rolled lip and flat base.

  Clay: brown earthenware (possibly underfired stoneware) with white inclusions.

  Glaze: none.

  Decoration: wide band of rings incised on the shoulder using combing tool.

• Provenance

  Between 1972/3-1975 to 2005

  Mr. and Mrs. Victor (1919-2013) and Takako Hauge (1923-2015), probably acquired in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam [1]

  From 2005

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Probably acquired when Osborne and Gratia Hauge were living in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, from 1972 or 1973 until 1975. Victor and Takako Hauge visited Osborne and Gratia on various occasions and probably acquired this object during one of their visits. The Hauge family generally acquired Vietnamese ceramics in Vietnam. See notes by Louise Cort, “Information transcribed from notes taken during visits to the home of Victor and Taka Hauge […] and the adjacent ‘Southeast Asia House,’ 1 June 2001. Conversation with Osborne (Bud) Hauge and with Victor and Taka Hauge,” dated 2001-2013, pp. 6-8, copy in object file.

  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 the Hauge families. See Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, copy in object file.

  Research updated November 22, 2022

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

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

• Origin

  Southern Vietnam

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Vessel

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  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1930s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Vietnam

• Topic

  Nguyen dynasty (1802 - 1945), Unglazed, Art, Hauge collection, Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)