Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia

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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 reddish brown.
Glaze: celadon, glossy, crazed, transparent; falls short some distance above foot, interior unglazed.
Decoration: incised bands on shoulder.
  • Bottle with two vertical ring handles
  • Bottle with two vertical ring handles
Origin
North-central Thailand, Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Pa Yang kilns
Medium
Stoneware with celadon 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): 12 x 8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/8 in)
Accession Number
S2005.263
On View Location
Currently not on view
Date
Ayutthaya period, late 15th-early 16th century
Keyword(s)
Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767), green glaze, Sawankhalok ware, stoneware, Thailand
Curatorial Remarks

  • 1. (Candy Chan,  Research Assistant, May 19, 2003) Sisatchanalai 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).


    Celadon eared bottle of this type is in the James and Elaine  Connell collection at the Asian Art Museum of San    Francisco (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco ed. 1993,  122, pl. 90).


    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.


    Asian Art Museum of San    Francisco, ed. 1993. Thai Ceramics: The James and  Elaine Connell Collection. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

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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.
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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 reddish brown.
Glaze: celadon, glossy, crazed, transparent; falls short some distance above foot, interior unglazed.
Decoration: incised bands on shoulder.
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