Object Details
- Provenance
- From 1954-57 to 2003
- Private collector, purchased from a workman on the site of Angkor Wat sometime between 1954 and 1957. [1]
- From 2003
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of private collector. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] The private collector acquired the jar within the precincts of Angkor Wat during one of many trips to Angkor while living in Saigon, Vietnam (1954-1957).
- A workman who was cleaning out of the two rectangular pools that flank the causeway leading to the temple showed the pot, which the collector bought from him. See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
- [2] See Deed of Gift, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.
- Collection
- Freer Study Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Anonymous
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 11th-14th century
- Period
- Angkor period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Medium
- Stoneware with brown iron glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 5 x 5.7 cm (1 15/16 x 2 1/4 in)
- Type
- Vessel
