Jar with two ornamental lugs, applied decoration, and inscription

Heavily potted with ovoid body, short neck, everted mouth and flat base. Two nubs below neck at opposite sides.
Clay: brown stoneware.
Glaze: yellowish green ash glaze, runny.
Decoration: four raised bands round the shoulder and three of them round the lower body.
Mark: a potter’s mark or two numbers or characters incised on the shoulder.

Historical period(s)
Lan Sang period or Champassak period, 17th-19th century
Medium
Stoneware with wood-ash glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam (overall): 65.2 x 44.4 cm (25 11/16 x 17 1/2 in)
Geography
Probably Southern Laos, Middle Mekong River network
Credit Line
Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge
Collection
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Accession Number
S2005.147
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Jar

Keywords
Champassak period (1713 - 1946), Hauge collection, Lan Sang period (1271 - 1707), stoneware, Vietnam, wood-ash glaze
Provenance

From at least 1975 to 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]

From 2005
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 2005

Notes:

[1] Object file. Acquired while Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge were living in Saigon (1972 or 1973-1975). According to Marie-France Dupoizat (see Published References), who visited the Hauges in the mid-1980s, the jars of this type were bought in Saigon in 1971.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Victor and Takako Hauge (1919-2013, 1923-2015)
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge (1914-2004) and (died 2000)

Description

Heavily potted with ovoid body, short neck, everted mouth and flat base. Two nubs below neck at opposite sides.
Clay: brown stoneware.
Glaze: yellowish green ash glaze, runny.
Decoration: four raised bands round the shoulder and three of them round the lower body.
Mark: a potter's mark or two numbers or characters incised on the shoulder.

Published References
  • Louise Allison Cort, George Williams, David P. Rehfuss. Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia. Washington. .
  • Marie-France Dupoizat. Recherches sur les Jarres en Asie du Sud-Est. Paris. pp. 445-446.
Collection Area(s)
Southeast Asian Art
Web Resources
Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
Google Cultural Institute
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