Dish with incised decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Dish with flared mouthrim, broad bi-shaped footring, and six spurmarks on the interior bottom.

  Clay: porcelain.

  Glaze: translucent, glossy, finely crazed; falls short of the upper half of exterior body.

  Decoration: one incised ring below the mouthrim and one on interior bottom.

  Inscriptions: two numbers, resembling "77," painted by brush with dark grey pigment (faded Chinese ink?) on exterior body.

• Inscriptions

  Two numbers, 77, painted by brush with dark grey pigment on exterior body.

• Provenance

  ?-2005

  Mr. and Mrs. Victor (1919-2013) and Takako Hauge (1923-2015) [1]

  From 2005

  The National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, 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 this 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

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

• Previous custodian or owner

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

• Origin

  Dehua kilns, Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  China, Fujian province, Dehua kilns

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Clear glaze, Hauge collection, Chinese Art, Southern Song dynasty (1127 - 1279), Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics, Dehua ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)