Sawankhalok (Sangkalok in Thai) is the name of an ancient town in north-central Thailand that still exists and is area with ceramic kiln production first begun during the Sukhothai Kingdom that blossomed during the Ayutthaya Kingdom. In the early Ming Dynasty, Thailand and Vietnam became major ceramics producers and exporters to Southeast Asia, Japan and the Middle East as Ming emperors forbade the export of Chinese ceramics from 1368-1487, a period known as the Ming Gap. During the 14th and 15th centuries, Sawankhalok kilns produced a huge range of shapes and glazes derived from earlier Thai traditions and influences from China, Vietnam and Cambodia to produce their own unique creations. Scholarship about ceramics of this period has been expanded greatly by maritime studies of the many Southeast Asian shipwrecks conducted by the late Roxanna Brown.
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Sawankhalok elegant mangosteen shape stoneware lidded bowl with raised calyx, cream and brown glazes, incised floral and geometric designs to store spices, cosmetics, betel nuts and medicine.
Produced in Thai kilns in the 14th to 15th centuries, Sawankhalok glazed stoneware lidded bowls were distributed through southeast Asia along with a variety of larger and smaller items. Lidded bowls like this were used to store many things, especially spices, powders and cosmetics, betel nut chewing materials, and medicine. This bowl rests on a thick foot, has a lid with a brown lotus bud handle and covered with decorative panels of underglaze brown crosshatch and vegetal scrolls.
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