Fragment of the neck and shoulder of a small bottle

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Fragment comprising the neck, without mouth, and upper shoulder of a small jar. The fragment's walls vary from 0.3 to 0.4 cm in thickness.

  Clay: The body is gray stoneware made from a fine-grained clay with few inclusions.

  Glaze: The glaze is a pale grayish-green celadon with a fine crackle where it has been stained. The top of the neck is discolored from having been exposed to an open-air ground fire at the kiln site.

  Decoration: None.

  Marks: None.

• Provenance

  To 1956

  Charles Nelson Spinks (1906-1980), collected in San Kamphaeng, Thailand. [1]

  From 1956

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Nelson Spinks. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Study Collection catalogue card, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Nelson Spinks (1906-1980)

• Origin

  San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Nelson Spinks

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1600s, 1300s

• Name

  Spinks, Charles Nelson

• Place

  San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Southeast Asian Art, San Kamphaeng ware, Ceramics, Lan Na period (1251 - 1774)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)