Bencharong (Five-Colored) Ware, Jar with Tiered Cover

19th century

China, for the Thai Market

Status: On View, Gallery 142
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Bencharong (Five-Colored) Ware, Jar with Tiered Cover
Place: China (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1801–1900
Medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
Dimensions: Bowl with Lid: 24.3 × 16 cm (9 9/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Bowl: 12.8 × 16 cm (5 × 6 5/16 in.); Lid: 11.5 × 16 cm (4 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: A. A. Sprague Fund
Reference Number: 1923.577a-b
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C. [probably Charles Fabens Kelley], “Siamese Pottery,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb. 1924): 23‒24.

Art Institute of Chicago, Siamese Pottery, May–July, 1923.

Commander Theodor Peder Amundsen Ring (1866‒1932), Christiania (present-day Oslo), by 1922; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 1923.
Learn more about the history of the Ring acquisition here.

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