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Pouring vessel in form of an elephant
Vietnamese
Le dynasty
16th century
Medium/Technique
Stoneware with dark brown glaze and decorated with green daubs
Dimensions
Overall: 15.5 x 23.5 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John D. Constable
Accession Number2018.2169
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
Catalogue Raisonné
189
ProvenanceBy 1948, possibly Ngo Quynh Dieu, Ris-Orangis, Essone, France; possibly 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 1989, possibly 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] Dr. Constable indicated that this may be one of the vessels he acquired from Mme. Dai during this period. 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] The vessel had been on loan to the MFA beginning in 1989.
NOTES:
[1] Dr. Constable indicated that this may be one of the vessels he acquired from Mme. Dai during this period. 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] The vessel had been on loan to the MFA beginning in 1989.