Baluster jar

Object Details

• Description

  Baluster-shaped jar with tall, broad cylindrical neck, flanged mouth, disc-shaped flat base, and four nubs on shoulder.

  Clay: grey stoneware, blackened by reduction firing.

  Glaze: none.

  Decoration: stamped with a row of pointed designs above incised bands on lower neck; three bands of decoration with bosses, impressed slant lines and jabbed marks on upper shoulder, just above twelve groups of stamped vegetal design and one pointed design on shoulder; incised with inverted lotus panels, combed scallop lines and incsied bands on upper body.

• Provenance

  From at least 1973 to 2005

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

  From 2005

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 2005 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file.

  Acquired while Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge were living in Bangkok (1967-1972 or 1973).

  Major sources of acquisitions during this time were dealers in Bangkok, the weekend market in Bangkok, and vendors in Ayutthaya.

  [2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between the Hauge families.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

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

• Origin

  Ban Bang Pun kilns, Suphanburi province, West-central Thailand

• 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

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Suphanburi province, Thailand, Ban Bang Pun kilns

• Topic

  Suphanburi ware, Unglazed, Art, Sukhothai period (ca. 1219/1243 - 1378), Hauge collection, Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)