Small Bottle Or Vase, Chinese Faience
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1887
label: Collection Date
content: April - July 1881 ?
name: label: Collector
content: Antoine-Alfred Marché
label: Donor Name
content: Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Glazed Stoneware made of a grey clay colored brown and covered with a bluish grey glaze [celadon?] of Chinese manufacture. Form: The lower part of body has a bell shape with a convex shoulder sloping to the neck which is short and concave and has a thickened rounded rim and two small loop handles. it was found in a grotto on Marinduque Island, Philippine group."
label: Notes
content: Bottom of this small jar or jarlet is marked: "R-175. A.M." Jar has two labels glued on the side. First label, in French: "Tibor. Petit vase de Chine, trouvé dans une grotte de Marinduque Iles Philippines." The second label, in English: "Faience. Chinese. From Marinduque Philippine Islands. Bureau [sic] of Arts, Paris."
label: Notes
content: From April - July 1881, Alfred Marché (Antoine-Alfred Marché), a French naturalist and explorer, explored and excavated caves in Marinduque, Philippines, and brought back a collection, some of which was deposited in the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme). In 1887, the Smithsonian received a collection from the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, including jar # A127996, which was identified as being from a cave in Marinduque. It therefore may be speculated that the jar # A127996 may be part of the material collected by Alfred Marché. Note also that the jar has the initials "A.M." marked on its base. Reference: Marché, Alfred, Carmen Ojeda, Jovita Ventura Castro, Pierre Revol, and W. A. Burke-Miailhe. 1970. Luzon and Palawan. Manila: The Filipiniana Book Guild: pp. 171 - 189.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marinduque Island, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Filipino
label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018694
label: USNM Number
content: A127996-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 6.68 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 6.99 cm