Accession Nr.: 4890
Type: pottery
Date of production:
14 – mid-16th century
Place of production:
Materials/Techniques: ceramics, celadon glazed
Dimensions: height: 6.1 cm
diameter: 6. 5 cm
Celadon glazed Sawankalok ware. A thick, greenish ceramics vessel with a crackled glaze, originally reddish in colour. An onion-shaped body emerges from the tiny base, connected to the mouth of the object by tiny ribbon handles.

In the former town of Sawankhalok in Northern and central Thailand, the pottery industry developed enormously from the 14th to the mid-16th century. This was in part due to the sudden ban on the export of Chinese ceramics in 1371, during Ming dynasty rule. It was at this time that Vietnamese and Thai ceramics took the place of Chinese ceramics in Southeast Asian markets.
Typical pieces of the type are celadon glazed ceramics, learned from Chinese masters, but other types of glazes also existed. The pieces that can be found today were partly found on site, partly as cargo from sunken shipwrecks.