Kalong kilns, Kalong, Chiang Rai province, Northern Thailand
Date:
14th-mid 16th century
Period:
Lan Na period
Description:
Low dish with plain upright rim, wide base, and shallow, wide carved footrim. On interior, small ridge (made during throwing) defines divide between bottom and cavetto.
Clay: light-gray stoneware with some black includions.
Glaze: green-gray glaze on interior and exterior to footrim, but wiped off rim. Base unglazed, with white scar of tubular firing support almost as large in diameter as base.
Decoration: none.
Provenance:
From at least 1973 to 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge [1]
From 2005
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 2005 [2]
Notes:
[1] Object file.
Acquired while Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge were living in Bangkok (1967-1972 or 1973).
Major sources of acquisitions during this time were dealers in Bangkok, the weekend market in Bangkok, and vendors in Ayutthaya.
[2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between the Hauge families.
