Object Details
- Description
- Hand modelled elephant with a rider holding a cup-shaped vessel on its back.
- Clay: grey stoneware with black inclusions.
- Glaze: celadon, glossy, crazed; lower feet unglazed.
- Decoration: none.
- Provenance
- 1930’s
- Brought to the United States for the Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco
- To 2005
- Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]
- From 2005
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 2005
- Notes:
- [1] Purchased from Sotheby’s in New York.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Victor (1919-2013) and Takako (1923-2015) Hauge
- Credit Line
- Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge
- 15th-16th century
- Period
- Ayutthaya period
- Accession Number
- S2005.293
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Stoneware with celadon glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall): 18.2 x 20.6 x 10.5 cm (7 3/16 x 8 1/8 x 4 1/8 in)
- Style
- Sawankhalok ware
- Origin
- Ban Pa Yang kilns, Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, North-central Thailand
- Related Online Resources
- Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
- Google Cultural Institute
- NMAA Southeast Asia
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Sawankhalok ware
- elephant
- green glaze
- Thailand
- Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767)
- stoneware
- Southeast Asian Art
- Hauge collection
- Record ID
- fsg_S2005.293
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye30369697a-127f-481b-bfb4-c44a250b7c16
