Cup

Object Details

• Description

  Beaker-shaped cup, slightly contracted at mid-body, wheel-thrown on wheel revolving clockwise; foot trimmed up to hip, inside of footrim roughly carved.

  Clay: stoneware, gray, fine-grained; orange flush on one side (hot side?) near lower edge of glaze.

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

  Mark: none.

• Label

  The iconic beaker-shaped form of the “Cham” cup, with its caramel-brown glaze, was first introduced by Roxanna Brown (1977). Cups of this distinctive form collected in Qui Nhon, Binh Dinh province, Central Vietnam, were among the first clues to the existence of kiln sites nearby. Qui Nhon was formerly Vijaya, capital of the Cham polity of the same name, which flourished from ca. 1000 until it was defeated by the Vietnamese in 1471. The Go Sanh kilns sites were excavated in the 1990s. The Chams were great long-distance traders, and scholars debate whether the glazed-ceramic technology was introduced from northern Vietnam or from southern China.

• 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 Washington, DC and Janine Lydman, Berryville, Virginia. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 3 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

  possibly Go Sanh kilns, Binh Dinh province, Coastal, Central Vietnam

• 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

  Vietnam, Go Sanh kilns, Coastal, Binh Dinh province

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Brown and black glaze, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Vijaya period (1000 - 1471)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)