Vaso (1) - Terracotta - Small Jar Sawankhalok - Tailandia - XV secolo

Description

Beautiful miniature jare in brown dark color and fine incised line typical from sawankhalok production of earthenware.

The term Sawankhalok covers the production of many hundreds of kilns of central Thailand. (It is frequently used interchangeably with the term ‘Si Satchanalai’, but refers to a wider area not covered by specific Si Satchanalai kilns.)

Sawankhalok was in full production by the mid-1300s.

The kilns produced
Unglazed wares
Monochrome white, black, brown, celadon, and olive wares
Brown glaze with incised decoration inlaid with white
Underglaze iron decorated wares.

Sawankhalok/Si Satchanalai clay is finer than Sukhothai clay and has many small black spots, due to the high iron content of the clay.

Sometimes, the inclusions can be red or silver coloured. Like Sukhothai, Sawankhalok mainly created relatively simple shapes – jars, bottles, bowls and plates.

The earliest Sawankhalok/Si Satchanalai wares included dishes decorated with underglaze iron depictions of flowers in the bases, with fish on the cavettos. Secimens of the flowers and fish design have been found on the Turiang shipwreck, dated to around 1370.

Datation

End of 15th century

Condition

Very good condition but some tiny lacks to rim.
Please check picture for global condition

Provenance

French private collection