Antique Chinese Porcelain Bencharong Bowl for the Thai Market, 18th century.

Large Antique Thai Bencharong Stem Plate. A stoneware tazza having a domed pedestal base under a foliate rim dish. Traditionally enameled in a green an...

Large Antique Thai Bencharong Stem Plate. A stoneware tazza having a domed pedestal base under a foliate rim dish. Traditionally enameled in a green an...

Pair of Vintage Thai Bencharong Lidded Jars, 20th century. Bencharong enamel decoration with Buddhist imagery on a black background. This porcelain jar and lid form having a raised foot rim and lotus bud on a disk lid finial are richly decorated in bright polychrome enamels in the style of the royal household ceramics favored by the nobility in eighteenth century Siam. This colorful style became known as “bencharong”, a term that derives from two Sanskrit words – panch (‘five’) and rong (‘colour’) and which relates to the number of colors used to decorate such porcelain. These jars and covers are decorated with typical Thai motifs. The sides are decorated with four Thepanom (Buddhist celestial beings) each wearing a broad necklace of petals and seated on a lotus within triangular cartouches that have a coral-red ground. Four Norasingh (mythical forest-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the hind-quarters of a lion and the tail and hoofs of a deer) against black back grounds filled with flaming purple kranok motifs. This design is framed by two floral bands top and bottom. The interior is a covered in a transparent glaze with unglazed lid edge and the gallery interior edge of the lid unglazed. Condition: Excellent Each measuring: 5 in. in diameter x 6 in. high (12.7 x 15.2cm) Each weighing: 1 lb. 5.5 oz. (610g.) 20th century. Provenance: Dr. Philip Gould, New York, NY. Millea Brothers, New Jersey For similar examples see: William Warren & Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Arts and Crafts of Thailand, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994, p.33. Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, 17 Sep. 2014, lot 180 With the following notes: Bencharong porcelains...

Antique Sawakhalok Celadon Bowl, Thailand, 14th/15th century. A sturdily potted wheel thrown stoneware bowl with everted rim and chamfered lip. The cavetto has vertical combed lines...

A very nicely decorated jar. 18th century Chinese made for the SE Asian / Thai Market. Very rare! Condition Overall condition very good only some enamel loss. 190 x 183 mm Pe...

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Lovely Chinese porcelain Famille rose charger with nice green enamels. We think it could be a pre Bencharong / Pre Nyonya plate/charger. We call this style Pre Bencharong because it...

A large chinese porcelain bowl with a fine painted blue/white decoration from the 18th century Perfect condition, UV tested Diameter bowl 20.2 cm Shipping is in double box for secur...