Object Details
- Description
- Large oval jar with flattened base, of red-brown burnished ware. The should slopes gently toward a constricted cylindrical neck rising vertically to a plain rim. A broad band handle extends from rim to shoulder. Burnish marks are clearly visible across the body.
- 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
- Exhibition History
- Asian Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts (October 29, 2000 to April 22, 2001)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1400-800 BCE
- Period
- Iron Age I - II
- Credit Line
- Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 36.1 x 29 x 29 cm (14 3/16 x 11 7/16 x 11 7/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
