Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia

Bottle with two vertical ring handles

Bottle of ovoid form with angular shoulder, cup-shaped mouth, splayed foot and recessed base. Two ring handles on shoulder.
Clay: light grey stoneware with black inclusions, coarse, oxidized to pinkish red.
Glaze: white, transparent; falls short irregularly at foot, interior and base unglazed.
Decoration: incised bands on the shoulder.

  • Bottle with two vertical ring handles
  • Bottle with two vertical ring handles
Origin
North-central Thailand, Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Sawankhalok kilns
Medium
Stoneware with white glaze
Credit Line
Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge
Collection
National Museum of Asian Art Collection
Style
Sawankhalok ware
Dimension(s)
H x Diam (overall): 13.5 x 7.6 cm (5 5/16 x 3 in)
Accession Number
S2005.260
On View Location
Currently not on view
Date
Ayutthaya period, late 15th-16th century
Keyword(s)
Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), Sawankhalok ware, stoneware, Thailand, white glaze
Curatorial Remarks
  • 1. (Candy Chan,  Research Assistant, May 19, 2003) Si Satchanalai celadon glazed eared bottle of  this type were found in the Ko Samui wreck site, belong to Surat Thani  province, the Gulf of Thailand. (Green and Harper 1987, 7,  fig. 11a).


    Green, Jeremy, and Rosemary Harper.  1987. The Maritime Archaeology of Shipwrecks and Ceramics in Southeast Asia. Australian  Institute for Maritime Archaeology Special Publication No. 4.  Fremantle: Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology.


    2. ( Louise Cort, 14  January 2007) Don Hein associated white-glazed wares in a generally Ming  Chinese style with the wares made at Si Satchanalai that he terms LASW (Late  Stoneware) (Hein 2001, figs. 43–44). Although Hein is cautious about dating, he  suggests that LASW dates to 15th–16th century (Hein 1999, 150).


    Changed Date from 14th–mid 16th century to 15th–16th  century.


    Hein, Don. 2001. "The Sawankhalok Ceramic Industry:  from Domestic Enterprise  to Regional Entrepreneur". PhD Thesis, Department of  Science and Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne.


    Hein, Don. 1999. "The First Underglaze Painted  Decoration at Sawankhalok: identification of a key influence? (Diqu shouci chuxian  de youxia caihui: Taigou taoci tazhan  shi shang  wailai yingxiang de zhongyao xiansuo?)." Guoli Taiwan daxue Meishushi yanjiu jikan (The Taida Journal  of Art History) 7: 137–158.


    3. (Louise Cort, 17  February 2008) From shipwreck evidence, Roxanna Brown finds that opaque white  glaze appears on objects recovered from wrecks that she dates to the early 16th  century, circa 1500–1020. They appear at the same time as the so-called brown  and white wares, decorated with iron brown and opaque white glazes (Brown 2004,  74).


    Changed Date from 15th–16th century to Late 15th–16th century.


    Brown, Roxanna Maude. 2004. "The Ming Gap and Shipwreck  Ceramics in Southeast Asia". Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Art History, University of California,  Los Angeles.

Previous owner(s)
Victor and Takako Hauge ((1919-2013) and (1923-2015))
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.
Description
Bottle of ovoid form with angular shoulder, cup-shaped mouth, splayed foot and recessed base. Two ring handles on shoulder.
Clay: light grey stoneware with black inclusions, coarse, oxidized to pinkish red.
Glaze: white, transparent; falls short irregularly at foot, interior and base unglazed.
Decoration: incised bands on the shoulder.
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