RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
A Sawankhalok stoneware figure (tukatha),
Realised: $70 plus premium
Lot Details
13th to 16thC. A pale brown stoneware figure of a nude woman with a topknot, kneeling and holding a child between her breasts. The celadon glaze applied roughly above her waist. For a comparable figure see: William Willetts, Ceramic art of Southeast Asia (Singapore: The Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1971), p. 70, no. 280. University of Malaysia collection; Willetts observes this figure 'came from the kiln site'. Dick Richards, South-East Asian ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 135, pl. 87 (Art Gallery of South Australia 708C188).
