Object Details
- Description
- A small, hand-built stemmed cup made of buff earthenware. The rim is round, wide and flares outward. The body tapers in slightly beneath the rim, then slopes outward to the bulbous lower center body. There is brown paint/slip decoration around the upper exterior of the cup: two concentric lines, followed by a register of geometric designs; beneath it, four concentric bands the lowest of which forms the upper register of a zone which encircles the widest circumference of the cup. This zone features alternating crosshatching rectangles astride triangles, and bird designs.
- Small losses to the rim have been filled with a tinted plaster/putty material. Losses and abrasions to the brown paint/slip decoration appear to have been repainted. Otherwise intact and in fair-good condition. Scattered dirt/deposits across the surface.
- Provenance
- ?-2005
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne (1914-2004) and Gratia Hauge (d. 2000) [1]
- From 2005
- The National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, by gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge [2]
- Notes:
- [1] The Hauge family began collecting Asian paintings, sculpture, and ceramics in the late 1940s and would amass a large collection in the post-World War II years.
- [2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between members of the Hauge families. See Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, copy in object file. From 2005-2023 the work was part of the National Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection and on March 21, 2023, the work was internally transferred to the National Museum of Asian Art Collection.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 1500 BCE
- Credit Line
- Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 10.5 x 7.1 x 7.1 cm (4 1/8 x 2 13/16 x 2 13/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
