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Ewer with spout in the form of an elephant

National Museum of Asian Art

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Object Details

Previous custodian or owner
Dean Frasché (1906-1994)
Provenance
From 1957
Dean Frasché, collected in 1957 from Sawankhalok, Thailand. [1]
To 1989
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dean Frasché, Greenwich, Connecticut. [2]
Notes:
[1] Curatorial Remark 6 in the object record.
[2] See note 1.
Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.
Credit Line
Gift of Dean Frasché
16th century
Period
Ayutthaya period
Accession Number
F1989.55
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Ceramic
Vessel
Medium
Stoneware with white and iron glazes
Dimensions
H x W x D: 7.3 x 7.4 x 9.3 cm (2 7/8 x 2 15/16 x 3 11/16 in)
Style
Sawankhalok ware
Origin
Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand
Related Online Resources
Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
F|S Southeast Asia
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Topic
Sawankhalok ware
elephant
Thailand
Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767)
stoneware
brown and black glaze
white glaze
Southeast Asian Art
iron glaze
WWII-era provenance
Record ID
fsg_F1989.55
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye31dce277f-a92f-46ae-b9f4-9da0087618f7

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