H x Diam (overall): 4.1 x 5.4 cm (1 5/8 x 2 1/8 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
possibly Phnom Kulen kilns, Angkor, Cambodia
Date:
9th-12th century
Period:
Angkor period
Provenance:
From 1954-57 to 2003
Private collector, purchased from a workman on the site of Angkor Wat sometime between 1954 and 1957. [1]
From 2003
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of private collector. [2]
Notes:
[1] The private collector acquired the jar within the precincts of Angkor Wat during one of many trips to Angkor while living in Saigon, Vietnam (1954-1957).
A workman who was cleaning out of the two rectangular pools that flank the causeway leading to the temple showed the pot, which the collector bought from him. See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
[2] See Deed of Gift, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.
