Object Details
- Description
- A globular jar of burnished red/brown earthenware. The body tapers to a flat base, and the mouth is wide with a thickened, out-flaring rim. There is a long bridged beak spout which extends from the body, decorated with a series of incised parallel lines Opposite the spout is a simple, rounded strap handle. The surface burnished. Fired in an oxidation atmosphere.
- A small chipped area below the rim, on the exterior near the handle, has been filled with a pink plaster/putty material. The exterior surface is badly abraded and worn, with most of the original burnishing gone. Scattered fine pinholes and minor firing flaws mar the surface. Otherwise, in very good condition.
- 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
- 1350-800 BCE
- Period
- Iron Age I
- Credit Line
- Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Medium
- Burnished earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 24.9 x 37.9 x 25.1 cm (9 13/16 x 14 15/16 x 9 7/8 in)
- Type
- Vessel
