Lidded container

Light gray stoneware

Historical period(s)
Angkor period, 880-1177
Medium
Stoneware with wood-ash glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam (overall): 8.6 x 7.5 cm (3 3/8 x 2 15/16 in)
Geography
Cambodia, Siem Reap province, Angkor
Credit Line
Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge
Collection
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Accession Number
S1996.165a-b
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Vessel

Keywords
Angkor period (802 - 1431), Cambodia, green glaze, Hauge collection, lotus, stoneware, wood-ash glaze
Provenance

From circa 1970-1972 to 1996
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]

From 1996
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 1996

Notes:

[1] Object file. Acquired from unknown dealer, probably in Ayutthaya or Bangkok; According to Victor Hauge (in a telephone conversation November 6, 1996), he was told by the dealer who sold him this piece that it had been found in a cave in Buriram Province, Northeast Thailand.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Victor and Takako Hauge (1919-2013, 1923-2015)

Description

Light gray stoneware

Published References
  • Louise Allison Cort, George Williams, David P. Rehfuss. Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia. Washington. .
  • Jack Hobbs, Richard Salome, Ken Vieth. The Visual Experience., 3rd ed. Worcester, Massachusetts, 2004-2005. .
  • Dean Frasché. Southeast Asian Ceramics: Ninth through Seventeenth Centuries. New York. cat. 3, p. 39.
  • Louise Allison Cort, Massumeh Farhad, Ann C. Gunter. Asian Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts. Washington, 2000. cat. 52, pp. 100, 146.
  • Louise Allison Cort. Kumeeru touki: Haugi Correkushon wo chushin to shita kumeeru toki no kenkyu [Khmer Ceramics: Research on Khmer Ceramics Centering on the Hauge Collection]. no. 22. cat. 52, p. 163.
  • Thomas Lawton, Thomas W. Lentz. Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. vol. 1 Washington, 1998. p. 208, fig. 1.
Collection Area(s)
Southeast Asian Art
Web Resources
Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
Google Cultural Institute
F|S Southeast Asia
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