RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
A Sawankhalok stoneware covered box,
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Lot Details
13th to 16thC. Of greyish-buff clay. Indented base with a circular spur mark; a waisted foot ring around the lower, curving, wall; Turned rim. Flat cover with a pointed knop set on a raised disc. The exterior of box and cover each painted with a band of alternating panels of cross hatching and scrolled 'fern' motifs. The box glazed on interior and exterior, excluding the base, resting surface and rim; the cover glazed on the exterior. 8.4 x 9.1 cm. Comparable pieces are found in: William Willetts, Ceramic art of South-East Asia (Singapore: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1971), p. 57, no.195-196 ; and Dick Richards, South-East Asian ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 99-100, figs 41-42.
