- Provenance
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From 1965-69 to 2005
Ambassador Jack Wilson Lydman (1914-2005), acquired in Jakarta, Indonesia between 1965 and 1969. [1]From 2005 to 2010
Janine Lydman, Washington, DC and Berryville, Virginia, ownership transferred to Mrs. Lydman after the death of her husband, Ambassador Jack Wilson Lydman. [2]From 2010
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Janine Lydman, Washington, DC and Berryville, Virginia. [3]Notes:
[1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.
[2] See note 1.
[3] See note 1. See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Mrs. Janine Lydman
Ambassador Jack Wilson Lydman 1914-2005
- Description
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Bottle with elongated neck, thick rim, two horizontal lugs upright on shoulder, wide midbody tapering to narrow foot with flat base, cut roughly round foot up to hip.
Clay: gray with yellow tinge, fine-grained.
Glaze: thin caramel-brown iron-based glaze, applied by dipping, stopping at hip.
Mark: none.
- Label
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Jars of this type occur in varying sizes, possibly marketed as containers for various products, but perhaps sold for their own value; they have been found on shipwrecks, including one off the coast of peninsular Malaysia that is dated to the late fourteenth century
- Published References
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- Louise Allison Cort, George Williams, David P. Rehfuss. Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia. Washington. .
- Roxanna M. Brown. The Ming gap and Shipwreck Ceramics in Southeast Asia: Towards a Chronology of Thai Trade Ware. Bangkok. .
- Roxanna M. Brown, Sten Sjostrand. Turiang: A Fourteenth-Century Shipwreck in Southeast Asian Waters. Pasadena, California. .
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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