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History Of Use

Sangkhalok ceramic (สังคโลก) bowl. Thailand has produced a variety of potteries for thousands of years. The Sukhothai Kingdom (1238–1438) produced ceramics at kilns in two areas, near the city of Sukhothai and the city of Si Satchanalai, also known as Sawankhalok. The name Sangkhalok is said to derive from this name of the city. Production continued at these kilns even after the Sukhothai Kingdom was incorporated into the Ayutthaya Kingdom (1351– 1767) and continued through the end of this period. During the late fourteenth to the late sixteenth centuries, glazed and decorated wares were produced in several places in north central Thailand for export, and these wares have been found in the other parts of Southeast Asia, but also in Japan, likely from shipwrecks from this period

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The sunburst designs are typical of Sukhothai wares.

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Stoneware with cream slip, and a coating of fine clay, painted with the decoration under the glaze. Slip is a liquid made by the addition of water to clay.

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Stoneware bowl (chām; ชามl) with slip and painted decoration under the glaze. The sides curve up from the foot, flaring sharply to an everted lip; foot and base unglazed; body, coarse medium grey stoneware. Exterior: broad band of painted white slip, stamped with two rows of small sunburst motifs in blue, enclosed top and bottom with two broad bands of plain white slip. Interior: one broad band of plain white slip, surrounded by a band stamped with one row of stylized sunburst motifs, encloses plain centre at bottom; walls are the same as the exterior, except for triple bands of plain slip below the lip. The bottom surface of the interior exposes grey body between slipped bands.