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SOUTHEAST
ASIAN ART FLOURISHES
During his lifetime, Charles Lang Freer acquired just a handful of
objects from Southeast Asia. The Freer and Sackler galleries’
Southeast Asian art collection has grown significantly in recent years,
thanks largely to the contributions of Arthur M. Sackler and other
collectors. The Hauge Collection of Ceramics from mainland Southeast Asia and other donations and acquisitions vastly enhanced our reputation regarding regional earthenware, stoneware, and imported Chinese Ceramics. What began as a few pieces of pottery has developed into
a rich and expanding collection of ceramics from Vietnam, Cambodia,
Thailand, Laos, and Burma, as well as Hindu and Buddhist temple sculpture
in stone, bronze, and terra-cotta.
SOUTHEAST ASIAN COLLECTION
Number of objects: close to 900 in the permanent collections, plus over 3,000 ceramic sherds and other materials in the Freer Study Collection
Historical range: 2,200 B.C.E.–present
HIGHLIGHTS
• Neolithic earthenware ceramics from northeast Thailand belonging
to the Ban Chiang culture
• Hindu and Buddhist temple sculpture from Cambodia and Indonesia,
including an 8th-century Buddha head from Borobudur, Central Java
(Indonesia)
• 10th–14th-century glazed ceramics from the Khmer empire
in Cambodia
• 12th–17th-century glazed ceramics from north and central
Vietnam
• 16th–19th-century glazed and unglazed ceramics from
northeast Thailand and Laos
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Southeast Asian Exhibitions
• Sculpture of South and Southeast Asia
• Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta
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