RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
A Sawankhalok stoneware bowl,
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Lot Details
13th to 16thC. Made of a fine, greyish brown clay. Indented flat base with a dark brown circular pentimento of a tubular kiln support; integrated foot ring; wide curving wall with a sloping ledge and everted rim. The exterior wall with a band of vertical grooves running from footing to ledge. The cavetto incised with a lotus flower in profile bordered by double rings; the interior wall incised with a band of five incised peony flows and leaves bordered by triple rings. Excluding the base and resting surface covered in a celadon glaze. Glaze abraded. 6.7 x 26.1 cm See: "Dick Richards, South-East Asian ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 121, fig. 68 (Art Gallery of South Australia, 854C16). Richards observes: 'The design and decoration of this bowl is influenced by Chinese trade ceramics of the late Yuan and Ming dynasties. It is technically very well made.'
