RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 2
Wednesday, 22 October - Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Sawankhalok stoneware bowl - 13thC - 15thC
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Lot Details
greyish-brown clay. Flat, indented base with a rough circular pentimento of a tubular kiln support. Integrated foot ring; wide, curving, slightly distorted, walls, sloping ledge and everted rim; the wall marked by remnant kiln furniture. The cavetto incised with a circular pattern and three stilt marks; the interior walls with a band of lotus leaf decoration. Covered in a thick, abraded, craquelure celadon glaze, excluding the base, foot ring and lower exterior wall. Material: Stoneware Origin/Date: Thailand Sawankhalok, c.1200 - 1501 Cat. Note/Condition/Ref.: "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.'" Glaze abraded. Good. Acquisition/Provenance: Near & Far Eastern Oriental Antiques Specialists 40977 Invoice reads 'Sawwankholok (sic) 16th Sw jar (piece missing from neck)' Dimensions: 25.6 x 24.5 x 7.9 cm
