Thai Ceramic Vase, Mid 19th Century

A ceramic vase from Thailand, with light cream glaze and painted floral decorations. Late 19th Century. While the golden age of Thai ceramics ended around the 15-16th Centuries, Thai craftsmen learned the art through generations, later producing smaller numbers of pieces with different clays and glazing techniques, inspired by the original master artisans of places like Si-Satchanalai and Sawankhalok. This small vase is beautifully preserved, measuring approximately 5 inches in diameter and 9.5 inches high. Its light beige glaze and still visible painted decorations is reminiscent of the impeccable craft of the ancient Southeast Asian ceramics.

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Antique Thai Architectural Ornament, Sukhothai kilns, 15th century. A glazed hollow ceramic roof tile finial of the Naga/Makara Dragon design having a robust chest supported by front talons and his upright bearded head with open mouth bearing his pointed teeth, further decorated in iron brown under glaze painted highlights, covered in a cream white transparent glaze. From North-Central Thailand, Sukhothai Kingdom, a 15th century sculptural architectural ornament, high-fired glazed stoneware roof tile for decorating and elaborately embellishing the roof of a Thai temple, which was generally constructed of wood and therefore long perished, leaving the remains of the roof tiles, such as this finial. Later custom fitted teak rectangular base included. Measuring: 17-3/8 in. high x 6-1/4 in. wide x 8 in. deep. (44 x 16 x 20.5cm) Weight: 10 lb. 2 oz. (4600g.) 15th Century. $4500. Provenance: with Peng Seng Antique Ltd., Bangkok 1993 (original receipt and certificate of antiquity). William R. Appleby, New York Doyle New York, Asian Works of Art September 21, 2020 lot #338. For similar examples in Museum Collections see: Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, accession no. C-1453. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, accession no. 2001.2 Brooklyn Museum, accession no. 84.133.5 Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2019.570.0 National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne accession no. AS86-1984. The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, accession no. BATEA 1138. Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, accession no. EA1969.75 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 1990.184 For similar examples in publications see: Siamese Pottery in Indonesia, Charles Nelson Spinks, The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1959, Fig. 1. Ceramic Art of Southeast Asia, William Willets, The Southeast Asian...