RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
A Sawankhalok stoneware covered box,
Lot Details
14thC. The box and cover of pale grey clay. On a low, integrated foot with an indented flat base; the body with a gently curving wall; flat cover. The body with an incised band of scrolling vines on a brown ground; the wall of the cover with an incised sawtooth pattern with the flat top incised with a six petalled starlike floral motif on a brown ground. The interior of the box with a thin reddish-brown glaze. Repairs to rim of cover. The conventional knop appears to have been removed during production. 7.7 x 9.9 cm For comparable pieces see: Dick Richards, Thai ceramics: Ban Chiang Khmer Sukothai Sawankhalok (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1977, p. 60, nos. 190, 192; and Dick Richards, South-East Asian ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 117, fig. 62 (Art Gallery of South Australia collection 708C98).
