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Southeast Asian Ceramics New Light on Old Pottery

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Incense burner (honey pot?)
Cambodia
12 th –13 th C, Bayon type
H: 9.8 cm, D: 14.9 cm
NUS Museum S1970-0051-001-0
“In the form of a flattened globular jar upon a cup-stand;
the jar with two moulded circular decorative bands on the
neck, and two incised scalloped bands on the shoulder; all
covered with a mottled dark-brown, tenmoku-type glaze,
much abraded at the turning-points; the foot flat and
crudely thrown, and the body with a light-grey, granular,
and much pitted biscuit. Acquired at Siem-réap and stated
to have been found in the north moat at Angkor Thom. It
must therefore post-date, if only by a few years, the digging
of the moat about 1190 AD.” (Willetts 1971: pl 8; see also
Brown 2002a: 85)
Sculpture of a pig, brown-glazed
Cambodia
11 th –13 th C
H: 14.8 cm, L: 17 cm, W: 9 cm
NUS Museum S2003-0001-045-0 Cambodia
Moulded tusks, incised pendant around neck, monkey
stopper (?) with glossy glaze; moulded incised bristles on
back; matt glaze; legs belly unglazed; buff-coloured body;
lie-de-vin slip. (Brown classifies similar forms as “limepots”,
see Brown 1988: pl XVld, XXc, XXld and 29c.)
Water container
Khmer (?)
Unknown
H: 31.8 cm, D: 30 cm, L: 37 cm 105
Private Collection
High-fired terracotta; unglazed globular shape with a wide
mouth and thick flat lip; an elephantine spout.
opposite:
Horse’s head, brown earthenware
Cambodia
11 th –13 th C
H: 8 cm, L: 6.8 cm, W: 3.6 cm
NUS Museum S2003-001-021-0
Possibly once attached to a pot; lidded pots with attached
heads in such animal shapes as roosters and ducks;
diamond décor on forehead; decorative pendants on chest;
caparison; incised reins; broken right ear. Not previously
published. Donated by Dr Peter Lu.