Stoneware with iron pigment under translucent glaze
Dimensions:
H x W x D: 18.8 x 13 x 13 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in)
Style:
Sawankhalok ware
Type:
Container
Origin:
Ban Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand
Date:
16th century
Period:
Ayutthaya period
Description:
Covered box with flattened lid and bud-shaped knob.
Clay: light gray stoneware with black flecks.
Glaze: translucent, bluish where thick; spill of extra glaze down one side of body; inside of lid, base and foot unglazed.
Decoration: incised concentric grooves around knob and base of body; painted in underglaze iron, radiating pointed forms on lid and vinescroll on body.
Mark: none.
Provenance:
From ca. 1968
Dorothy M. Slak, acquired ca. 1968 from Jakarta, Indonesia. [1]
From 1986
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dorothy M. Slak, Sarasota, Florida. [2]
Notes:
[1] Curatorial Remark 5 in the object record.
[2] See note 1.
Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.
