Collection Online as of March 30, 2023

Jar in the Shape of a Fruit

1100s

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Cambodia, Northeast Thai kiln, Khmer Ware, Angkor Wat/Bayon period, 12th century

Glazed pottery with brown slip

Diameter: 15.2 cm (6 in.); Overall: 24 cm (9 7/16 in.)

Gift of the Staff of The Cleveland Museum of Art in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1983.156

Location

not on view

Description

This dark-brown glazed jar, with the heavy clay body and translucent glaze on the cover and the top just below it, has a rare shape of a fruit. It has a narrow foot with several moldings and incised wavy pattern immediately below the cover which is shaped in the form of a curling fruit stem that forms a handle. It is difficult to determine what type of fruit was meant, possibly a squash.

Provenance

?–1983

(Osborne I. Hauge [1913–2004] and Victor Lloyd Hauge [1919–2013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1983–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).