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Covered Jar
Covered Jar

Covered Jar

1st–3rd century
Medium/TechniqueStoneware with white ash glaze and green glaze
DimensionsOverall: 16.5 x 16 cm (6 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of John D. Constable
Accession number2018.2123a-b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1948, Ngo Quynh Dieu, Ris-Orangis, Essone, France; by descent to her daughter, Nguyen Guynh Anh (Mrs. Nguyen Phuoc Dai, b. 1924 – d. after 2000), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam [see note 1]; between about 1978 and 2000, given or sold by Mme. Dai to John Davidson Constable (b. 1927 - d. 2016), Sherborn, MA; 2017, bequest of John Davidson Constable to the MFA [2]. (Accession Date: September 26, 2018)

NOTES:
[1] According to a signed attestation from Mme. Dai, she received her Vietnamese ceramics from her mother, who kept the collection in France beginning in 1948. According to Andrew Ranard, “Madame Dai’s: Past Is Present in Ho Chi Minh City,” New York Times, September 10, 1993, Mme. Dai kept part of her “family collection” at her restaurant in Ho Chi Minh; her grandfather had been a collector, and she began to sell pieces from this collection off beginning in 1975.
[2] From 2005 to 2006, on loan to the MFA.
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