H x Diam (overall): 62 x 58.1 cm (24 7/16 x 22 7/8 in)
Style:
Mong Cai ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Mong Cai kilns, Mong Cai, Quang Ninh province, Northern Vietnam
Date:
19th-mid 20th century
Period:
Nguyen dynasty
Description:
Jar of ovoid form with short tapered neck towards rounded lip, flat base. Four mold-formed animal mask handles on shoulder.
Clay: brown stoneware.
Glaze: none.
Decoration: three ridges round the shoulder alternate with combed wavy pattern.
Provenance:
?-2005
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne (1914-2004) and Gratia Hauge (d. 2000) [1]
From 2005
The National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, by gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge [2]
Notes:
[1] The Hauge family began collecting Asian paintings, sculpture, and ceramics in the late 1940s and would amass a large collection in the post-World War II years.
[2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between members of the Hauge families. See Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, copy in object file. From 2005-2023 the work was part of the National Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection and on March 21, 2023, the work was internally transferred to the National Museum of Asian Art Collection.
Collection:
National Museum of Asian Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Vietnam's Ceramics: Depth and Diversity (July 11, 2015 - July 10, 2016)
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia (April 1, 2007 to December 4, 2011)
