SOUTHEAST ASIAN CERAMICS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. JAMES E. BREECE III (lots 265-281)

A THAI KALONG GLAZED DISH

15TH CENTURY

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A THAI KALONG GLAZED DISH
15th century
The rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, painted in black with a central coiled leaf below three foliate panels, and on the exterior with three petal panels, all under a crackled clear glaze of pale greyish-olive tone, with a small mark painted in black on the unglazed base
11 1/8in. (29.3cm.) diam.

Exhibited

The Art Institute of Chicago, 2001-2002, no. 44154.

Lot Essay

Although a number of Kalong dishes painted with this pattern are published, they are not as well painted as the present example, which clearly shows that the broad, black brushstrokes are foliate motifs. More often they appear as less distinctive shapes which are sometimes referred to as 'crows'. See other examples illustrated by R. Brown, The Ceramics of South-east Asia, Oxford, 1988, pl. XXXIXa, by V. Dofflemyer, Southeast Asian Ceramics from the Collection of Margot and Hans Ries, Pacific Asia Museum, 1989, no. 88a, and by K. Itoi, Thai Ceramics from the Sosai Collection, Oxford, 1989, p. 86, no. 68.

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