RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
A Sawankhalok stoneware bowl,
Lot Details
13th to 15thC. Formed of light red biscuit coloured clay. Indented base with a circular pentimento of a tubular kiln support. Integrated foot ring with wide curving walls and everted rim. The cavetto incised with a circle, the wall with a band of four combed lotus bud motifs bordered above and below by two incised lines. The whole, excluding the base and resting surface with a translucent craquelure glaze, pooling at the cavetto. Glaze generally abraded and crackled. 9.6 x 28.7 cm. Roxanna M Brown, The ceramics of South-East Asia: their dating and identification (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1977), pl. 31, no. 109; Dick Richards, Thai ceramics: Ban Chiang, Khmer, Sukothai, Sawankhalok (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia), p. 69, no. 284; Dick Richards, South-East Asian ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 124, fig. 74 (Art Gallery of SA collection, 708C295)."
