RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 3
Tuesday, 11 - Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Stoneware bowl - Sawankhalok,
Realised: $65 plus premium
Lot Details
Thailand, 13thC to 16thC. Of grey brown coloured clay. Indented base with a faint circular spur of a tubular kiln support and kiln waste deposits. Integrated foot ring with wide curving walls, sloping ledge and everted rim. The interior and exterior walls dipped in a cream coloured slip and clear . The cavetto painted in iron underglaze with a foliated hanging flower bordered by three circles, the outer with a pattern of repeated dots; the upper interior wall with a band of three painted lines; the ledge painted with a band of twenty five cells with an alternating pattern of 12 scrolls and 13 blanks. The exterior upper wall painted with a scrolled band bordered with three and two lines, lower and upper. H.7.5cm. Dia.22.7cm Origin/Date: Thailand Sukothai Sawankhalok, 1200 1601 Cat. Note/Condition/Ref.: "Cf: William Willetts, Ceramic art of South-East Asia (Singapore: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1971), p. 53, nos. 173-175, for similarly-shaped bowls. Kenji Itoi, Thai ceramics from the Sosai collection (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 65, pl. 47, for similar cell-like painting." Two infilled and painted areas (8 x 2.8cm / 5.1 x 2cm) on ledge. Fair.
