H x Diam (overall): 18.4 x 25.8 cm (7 1/4 x 10 3/16 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Chao Phraya River network, Central Thailand
Date:
16th-17th century
Period:
Ayutthaya period
Description:
Pot of compressed globular form with round bottom, cylindrical neck, rolled lip with a groove inside the rim.
Clay: salmon pink earthenware.
Glaze: none.
Decoration: row of paddle-impressed diamond-shaped designs on shoulder, and with some short vertical lines below (probably traces of a paddle with lengthwise incised grooves, smoothed out over the rest of the vessel).
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:
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia (April 1, 2007 to December 4, 2011)
