Dish with incised decoration

Dish with shallow curving sides, wide flat rim and short carved footring; the exterior surface was scrapped possibly by a wooden tool.
Clay: grey stoneware.
Glaze: grassy green, transparent, glossy, crackled where thick; the underside unglazed.
Decoration: two incised rings on the interior.

Historical period(s)
Ra-manya period, 14th-15th century
Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Style
Twante ware
Dimensions
H x Diam (overall): 6.3 x 29.8 cm (2 1/2 x 11 3/4 in)
Geography
Lower Burma, Irrawaddy Delta kilns
Credit Line
Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge
Collection
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Accession Number
S2005.209
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Dish

Keywords
Burma, green glaze, Hauge collection, Ra-manya period (ca. 1300 - 1539), stoneware, Twante ware
Provenance

Between 1967-1972/3 to 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Victor (1919-2013) and Takako Hauge (1923-2015), probably acquired in Thailand [1]

From 2005
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge [2]

Notes:
[1] Probably acquired when Osborne and Gratia Hauge were living in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1967 to 1972 or 1973. Victor and Takako Hauge visited Osborne and Gratia on various occasions and probably acquired this object during one of their visits. See notes by Louise Cort, “Information transcribed from notes taken during visits to the home of Victor and Taka Hauge […] and the adjacent ‘Southeast Asia House,’ 1 June 2001. Conversation with Osborne (Bud) Hauge and with Victor and Taka Hauge,” dated 2001-2013, pp. 6-8, copy in object file.

When the Hauges acquired this object, they believed it to be Thai and the Hauge family generally acquired Thai ceramics in Thailand. See object list attached to Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, p. 12, copy in object file. See also notes by Louise Cort mentioned above. The museum later identified the object as originating from Burma. See notes “Curatorial Remarks Regarding Place of Origin,” dated January 24, 2003-May 29, 2008, copy in object file.

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 the Hauge families. See Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, copy in object file.

Research updated November 23, 2022

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Victor and Takako Hauge (1919-2013, 1923-2015)

Description

Dish with shallow curving sides, wide flat rim and short carved footring; the exterior surface was scrapped possibly by a wooden tool.
Clay: grey stoneware.
Glaze: grassy green, transparent, glossy, crackled where thick; the underside unglazed.
Decoration: two incised rings on the interior.

Published References
  • Louise Allison Cort, George Williams, David P. Rehfuss. Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia. Washington. .
Collection Area(s)
Southeast Asian Art
Web Resources
Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
Google Cultural Institute
F|S Southeast Asia
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