Sawankhalok Ware Covered Box with a conch handle, a band of star, and a band of vegetal scroll design / Artist Unknown, Thailand, Sawankhalok ware
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- Accession Number
- 2005/1.462A&B
- Title
- Sawankhalok Ware Covered Box with a conch handle, a band of star, and a band of vegetal scroll design
- Artist Nationality
- Thai
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with brown and cream glaze
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century - 15th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Thailand (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Thailand (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Sawankhalok ware
- Dimensions
- 9 cm x 11 cm x 11 cm (3 9/16 in. x 4 5/16 in. x 4 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 14th-15th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- box
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- Small-size covered box, with a handle surrounded by a raised stylized calyx, which imitates the growth pattern of the top of a mangosteen, and a band of star points at the rim of the lid. The body has a band of vegetal scrolls. Brown-and-cream 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
- combination inorganic/organic animal material
- combination inorganic/organic material
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- design elements
- materials
- materials by composition
- motifs
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- people and culture
- pottery (object genre)
- scrolls (motifs)
- shell (animal material)
- shell and shell material
- southeast asian
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- thai
- thai pottery styles
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
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- 2896 x 2376
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- Record
- 2005/1.462A&B
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"Sawankhalok Ware Covered Box with a conch handle, a band of star, and a band of vegetal scroll design; Artist Unknown, Thailand, Sawankhalok ware." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2005-sl-1.462a-amp-amp-sem-b/2005_1.462.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 05, 2024.