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Chapter 4. Glazed Ceramics in the Musi River

Figure 120. Plate, iron under-glaze fish outline over white slip,
rims repaired, diameter 28.2 cm, Central Thailand,
Sukhothai kilns, C14–C15, from the Musi River,
Boom Baru site. Catalogue No. K2598a.

Figure 118. Bowl, iron under-glaze decoration of abstract blobs
in well and outer body wall with stylized crabs, upper
rim repaired, diameter 15.8 cm, Central Thailand,
Sukhothai kilns, C14–C15, from the Musi River,
Pusri site. Catalogue No. K2159.

Figure 121. Bowl, possibly copper over-glaze degraded by river
or lost by over firing in kiln, upper rim repaired,
diameter 12.6 cm, probably Iraq, Abbasid, Lustre
Ware, C10, from the Musi River, Sungai Guci site.
Catalogue No. K1916.

119); and miniature bottles (K1618). Also fairly common
were plates with under-glaze iron painted fish outlines over
a white slip, including K2464, K2598 a, b &c (Figure 120).
Phitsanulok Pottery is dealt with in the Earthenware
section

Figure 119. Potiche (lid missing), decorated with iron under- LOWER CENTRAL THAILAND
glaze around body with abstract broad vegetation
strokes, half body repaired, height 7.9 cm, Central
Thailand, Sukhothai kilns, C14–C15, from the Glover (1993) described several pottery wares from lower
Musi River, Batu Ampar site. Catalogue No. K1387. Central Thailand. These were from the Wat Pra and Ban
Rachan, sites in Singburi Province which produced a variety
of glazed and unglazed wares (dealt with in Chapter 5) in
the late-16th and early-17th centuries.

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