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A Sawankhalok stoneware figure,
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Lot Details
15thC. Modelled in a grey stoneware of a mahout riding a tusked elephant; details of the harness are incised. The upper part dipped in a thin celadon glaze. 10.2 x 4.9 x 9.8cm. For a similar figure see: William Willetts, Ceramic art of Southeast Asia (Singapore: The Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1971), pp. 62, 152, no. 226. The Ries collection has an elephant figure in the same coloured body and glaze. See: Virginia Dofflemyer, Southeast Asian ceramics from the collection of Margot and Hans Ries (Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum, 1989), p. 57, no. 71.
