Bottle with two lugs

Object Details

• Description

  Bottle with elongated neck, thick rim, two horizontal lugs upright on shoulder, wide midbody tapering to narrow foot with flat base, cut roughly round foot up to hip.

  Clay: gray with yellow tinge, fine-grained.

  Glaze: thin caramel-brown iron-based glaze, applied by dipping, stopping at hip.

  Mark: none.

• Label

  Jars of this type occur in varying sizes, possibly marketed as containers for various products, but perhaps sold for their own value; they have been found on shipwrecks, including one off the coast of peninsular Malaysia that is dated to the late fourteenth century

• Provenance

  From 1965-69 to 2005

  Ambassador Jack Wilson Lydman (1914-2005), acquired in Jakarta, Indonesia between 1965 and 1969. [1]

  From 2005 to 2010

  Janine Lydman, Washington, DC and Berryville, Virginia, ownership transferred to Mrs. Lydman after the death of her husband, Ambassador Jack Wilson Lydman. [2]

  From 2010

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Janine Lydman, Washington, DC and Berryville, Virginia. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See note 1. See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ambassador Jack Wilson Lydman (1914-2005)

  Mrs. Janine Lydman

• Origin

  Fujian province or Guangdong province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Jack W. Lydman

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Lydman, Janine, Lydman, Jack Wilson

• Place

  China, Fujian province, Guangdong province

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Brown and black glaze, Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)