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Southeast Asian Ceramics New Light on Old Pottery

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Sukhothai
Bowl painted with iron brown fish 15 th –16 th C
Sukhothai H: 6.2 cm, D: 14.4 cm
14 th –15 th C NUS Museum S1967-0042-001-0
H: 8 cm, W: 22.3 cm Thailand
NUS Museum S2003-0001-046-0 Bowl neatly potted and with an even simpler and more
legible décor inside and out; unglazed rim; painted on a
Three circular bands along inner mouthrim; cavetto painted dull cream slip, the glaze totally eroded but with bubbles
in iron oxide; two fish separated by two sprigs of leaves; on the exterior; with five barely visible spur-marks on the
centre medallion bordered by two circular bands with centre medallion; the carved foot with a bright brown biscuit
central vegetal/floral motif and five spur marks (some containing whitish particles. (Cf. Willetts 1971: pl 160, but
calcification); exterior three circular bands. (See also Brown the actual diameter of the bowl differs greatly from the
1988: pl XXIXa) Donated by Dr Peter Lu.
Willetts catalogue.) Similar bowls were recovered from the
Xuande and Singtai wrecks (Brown & Sjostrand ND).
Plate decorated with fish 115
Sukhothai (bottom left):
15 th C
H: 6.4 cm, D: 26.3 cm Box with cover
NUS Museum S1969-0036-001-01 Sawankhalok
“The flattened mouthrim painted in underglaze iron-black above: 15 th C
with two interrupted decorative bands; the inside wall laid Stoneware fragment with underglaze black fish H: 7.4 cm, D: 9.5 cm
with a cream slip; the cavetto with a fruiting vegetal scroll in motif on interior base NUS Museum S1955-0255-001-0
iron-black, and the centre medallion with a fish; five spur- “Of kakinote (persimmon) type with nine sepals, the décor
marks are partly concealed by the mottled body of the fish; Thailand, Sukhothai similar to that of Nos. 250 [lid with a saw-tooth border
all covered by a somewhat opaque milky-white glaze giving 15 th C filled with a caramel slip; the body with an incised vine-
a lustred appearance; the outside wall slipped and glazed, H: 7.8 cm, D: 18 cm scroll] and 251, but the vine-trail on the body finer, and
and with two iron-black decorative bands, the carved foot NUS Museum S1972-18-1 filled with a dark-brown slip on a background of oatmeal
with a light grey-brown biscuit containing whitish granules.” “Comprising the centre medallion of a dish or bowl […]; biscuit partially covered with a degraded white glaze […];
(Willetts 1971: pl 162; Brown 2002a: 85. Donated by Lam a flat disc-shaped pontil with five spurs adheres to the the lower body moulded above the carved footrim; the
Soon Cannery. Compare Spinks I, fig 10, left, a Sukhothai carved foot. From the Thurian kiln site, Sukhothai.” foot unglazed, with a pontil scar and grey biscuit.” (Willetts
dish found in Bali, 51. Cf. also Brown 1988: pl XXVIId.) (Willetts 1971: pl 169) 1971: pl 252)