Two-part casting mold

Object Details

• Provenance

  Excavated from kiln site no. 6, Ban Prasat Village, Ban Kruat district, Buriram province, Northeast Thailand. [1]

  From 1973 to 1999

  Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway, Easton, Maryland, purchased from a local villager from the Ban Kruat sites in Buriram province, Northeast Thailand. [2]

  From 1999

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway, Easton, Maryland. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. According to an email from Roy Galloway to Louise Cort in June 22, 1999, he believes they were dug up in the field from the Ban Kruat sites, but he did not see them recovered. Nor did he do the digging.

  [2] See Curatorial Remarks 2 and 4 in the object record.

  [3] See note 2.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway

• Origin

  Buriram province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. Roy Galloway

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s, 1000s

• Name

  Galloway, Roy

• Place

  Buriram province, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Southeast Asian Art, Stone, Angkor period (802 - 1431)

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment