H x W x D: 4.1 x 5.2 x 4.2 cm (1 5/8 x 2 1/16 x 1 5/8 in)
Style:
Ban Kruat ware
Type:
Sculpture
Origin:
Ban Kruat kilns, Buriram province, Northeast Thailand
Date:
1100-1299
Period:
Angkor period
Description:
Shape: Irregular fragment of the foreleg of a modelled ceramic elephant. The fragment is 4.2 cm in diameter at the top and tapers to a diameter of 1.3 cm at the bottom.
Clay: Coarse light gray clay with many large inclusions, some approaching the size of small pebbles. There are significant air pockets and fissures leading from the surface to the interior of the shard body.
Glaze: Olive-green, crackled celadon glaze that has adhered well but is of uneven thickness.
Decoration: None.
Marks: in pencil on a broken edge of the shard.
Marks:
"ATP" presumably standing for "Angkor Thom Pool" is written in pencil on a broken edge of the shard.
Provenance:
To 1957
John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected between August 1956 and April 1957 in Angkor, Cambodia. [1]
From 1957
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [2]
Notes:
[1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. See also “Ceramics in Mainland and Southeast Asia: Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery”, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1. See also object file, Collections Management Office.
