Object Details
- Description
- Shape: Fragment of the shoulder of a large, brown-glazed Khmer jar. The coil-built wall of the jar is approximately 1.0 cm thick.
- Clay: Rough, porous, dark-colored clay fired to a low stoneware temperature. The body of the jar is mostly a dark violet-brown except on the inner wall where it has reoxidized to a brick-red color.
- Glaze: Patchy, thin, iron-brown glaze that fired to an olive-drab color with many light splotches. A lump of kiln debris adhered to the glaze in the kiln.
- Decoration: Combed underglaze incising of vaguely floral designs, surmounted by five deeply incised rings on the shoulder of the jar.
- Marks: None.
- Provenance
- To 1957
- John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected between August 1956 and April 1957 in Angkor, Cambodia. [1]
- From 1957
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See Curatorial Remarks 2 and 3 in the object record. See also “Ceramics in Mainland and Southeast Asia: Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery”, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.
- [2] See note 1. See also object file, Collections Management Office.
- Collection
- Freer Study Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Dr. John Alexander Pope (1906-1982)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1075-1430
- Period
- Angkor period
- Credit Line
- Gift of John A. Pope
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 1.5 x 11 x 8 cm (9/16 x 4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in)
- Type
- Vessel
