Stoneware with iron pigment under translucent, gray-green glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam (overall): 10.8 x 18.6 cm (4 1/4 x 7 5/16 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Red River Delta kilns, Hai Duong province, Vietnam
Date:
late 13th-14th century
Period:
Tran dynasty
Description:
Large glazed bowl, almost hemispherical in shape, with a small, flat, unglazed ring foot. The bowl is slightly uneven and slopes to one side. Light gray-green glaze inside and out, with floral decoration in a dark green-brown underglaze.
This deep bowl with inverted rim bears swiftly-sketched decoration of three floral sprays between to horizontal bands, with additional sprays in the bottom, that is a later version of the "Thanh Hoa"style, with the iron pigment applied before the glaze, which fired to a pale gray-green. Bowls and ewers of this type are dated late 13th-14th century (Stevenson and Guy 1997, nos. 201-203; cover and 155). The bottom bears five triangular spur marks. The flat base is unglazed.
Provenance:
To 1998
Chao Phraya Gallery, Washington, DC, acquired from an unidentified collector, to 1998 [1]
From 1998
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Chao Phraya Gallery in 1998
Notes:
[1] According to the proprietors of the Chao Phraya Gallery, this object came from a collector who had acquired it in Indonesia around 1976 (see Curatorial Note 5, Louise Cort, December 19, 1997).
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta (July 10, 2005 to November 15, 2009)
Beyond the Legacy--Anniversary Acquisitions of the Freer Gallery of Art (October 11, 1998 to April 11, 1999)
