Covered box with a knob and alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices / Artist Unknown, Thailand, Sawankhalok ware
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- Accession Number
- 1983/1.432A&B
- Title
- Covered box with a knob and alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices
- Artist Nationality
- Thai
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with underglaze iron decoration and clear glaze
- Object Creation Date
- circa 15th centrury
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Thailand (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Thailand (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Sawankhalok ware
- Dimensions
- 9.5 cm x 9.9 cm x 10 cm (3 3/4 in. x 3 7/8 in. x 3 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 15th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- box
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- Small-size covered box, the lotus bud handle and surrounding medallion in brown, the body and lid with alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices. Each panel is separated by a raised line. The foot is painted brown. Clear glaze.
- Subject Matter
- Covered boxes were used as burial objects to accompany the dead. This practice for the care of deceased people in afterlife preceded the succession of foreign religious influence from Buddhism, Hinduism to Islam. The stoneware trade ceramics were also objects of status and wealth, for the local kilns only produced less durable and inexpensive earthernwares. The round shape with a handle, and some of the design motifs were adopted from stone and metal reliquaries and architectural elements came with Indian Hinduism and Buddhism.
- Secondary Keywords
- asian
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
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- object genres
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- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- people and culture
- pottery (object genre)
- scrolls (motifs)
- southeast asian
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- thai
- thai pottery styles
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1468 x 1480
- File Size
- 289 KB
- Record
- 1983/1.432A&B
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"Covered box with a knob and alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices; Artist Unknown, Thailand, Sawankhalok ware." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-1.432a-amp-amp-sem-b/1983_1.432a_b.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.