H x Diam (overall): 48.4 x 35.7 cm (19 1/16 x 14 1/16 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Cambodia or Northeast Thailand
Date:
1075-1430
Period:
Angkor period
Description:
Vat with cylindrical body slightly wider in upper body in shoulder, tall angled shoulder, short neck, verted rim with flange. Wheel-thrown from coil added to flat base. Base flat, relatively smooth, one large chip from edge. Wall possibly constructed in three sections (with drying time between additions), plus shoulder and neck.
Clay: stoneware. deep reddish-brown where exposed, slightly lighter color on base.
Decoration: at base, straight upright trim at foot, above which is a series of seven evenly-spaced bevels. Main body of vessel undecorated. On upper wall below curve of shoulder, deep band of scalloped combing made with four-toothed combing tool, rounded upper arches and long spikes pointing straight downward. Just above, as wall curves inward, broad band crated by nine parallel incised horizontal lines. Shoulder undecorated. At base of neck, row of scalloped combing done with three-toothed combing tool, scallops compressed with spikes pointing dowward to right. Two incised horizontal lines around base of neck. Low neck everts to thick, wide rim with flange.
Glaze: iron glaze, mostly translucent cool brown, with thicker, darker streaks as well as streaks of ochre yellow, especially in glaze caught in bevels above foot. Glaze on shoulder and rim is thicker, uniformly darker tone. Glaze over entire interior, thicker on upper wall and ending in even horizontal line, suggesting that vessel was dipped upside down into vat of glaze. In addition, streaks and rivulets of glaze (some ochre yellow) all the way to vessel bottom.
Provenance:
From circa 1970-72 to 1996
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]
From 1996
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge in 1996 [2]
Notes:
[1] Object file.
Most likely acquired from a dealer in Ayutthaya or Bangkok, circa 1970-1972.
[2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between the Hauge families.
Collection:
National Museum of Asian Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia (April 1, 2007 to December 4, 2011)
The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery (October 30, 2005 to March 19, 2006)
Asian Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts (October 29, 2000 to April 22, 2001)
Previous custodian or owner:
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge ((1914-2004) and (1907-2000))