Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Low bowl with inverted plain rim, rounded sides, and flat base.

  Clay: light gray, fine-grained.

  Glaze: clear, lustrous, over white slip inside and out; slip and glaze pared away above base; base unglazed.

  Decoration: in underglaze cobalt in graded shades, pale to dark. Outside, double lines, very faint, below rim and above base enclosing vinescrolls with four four-petal full-face blossoms. Inside, small abstract floral spray in bottom.

  Mark: none.

• Provenance

  From 1958

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1958 from East Djakarta, Indonesia. [1]

  To 1989

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dean Frasché, Greenwich, Connecticut. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean Frasché (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Hai Duong province, Red River delta, Vietnam

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  Hai Duong province, Vietnam, Red River delta

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Art, Later Le dynasty (1428 - 1527), Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Mac dynasty (1527 - 1592), Restored Later Le dynasty (1533 - 1782)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)