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Join Louise Cort, curator of ceramics, in Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia and learn about the museums� first online catalogue, which centers on the Hauge Collection in the Sackler Gallery. The collection spans four thousand years and highlights ceramics made in or traded into Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma.

Web visitors around the world can now learn about these earthenware and stoneware objects through the triple vantage points of materials, place of production, and time. In addition to multiple color images and detailed texts, the online catalogue features a library of commissioned essays and translations, a bibliography of more than thirteen hundred citations, and an introduction to ceramic sherds housed in the Freer Gallery Study Collection. Archaeologists, curators, and collectors around the world can also add their professional comments. The site launches December 13.