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Two Khmer Empire stoneware jars,
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Lot Details
11th-12thC. Two jars of thickly potted greyish clay. A baluster body set on a high, tiered foot; flat base; turned bands on inner and outer shoulder; neck everted top and bottom; wide, flanged mouth. Decorated on the shoulder with a collar of incised, combed and chatter mark lines. The exterior and mouth covered in a brown glaze. Roxanna Brown dates a similarly formed, albeit smaller, vessel, a baluster-shaped ewer, to the second half of the 11thcentury. See: Roxanna M Brown, The ceramics of South-East Asia: their dating and identification (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1977), pl. J, no. 2. For a comparative example see: Dick Richards, South-East Asian ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 166, fig. 127.
