Description:

Southeast Asia, Thailand, Sawankhalok (Sawankalok), ca. 14th to 15th century CE; East Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 1368 to 1644 CE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery artifacts from ancient Thailand and China. First is a Thai Sawankhalok pottery figure shown seated with bent legs and displaying a paddle-shaped fan beneath a pair of perky breasts, all covered in brown glaze. The raised head bears almond-shaped eyes and full lips beneath a backswept coiffure bound in a bun. The Chinese Ming Dynasty head depicts an elegant female courtier with heavy eyelids, full cheeks, and a backswept coiffure, all beneath an elaborate, fan-shaped headdress. Size (head): 2.25" W x 4.125" H (5.7 cm x 10.5 cm); (figure): 1.7" W x 3.3" H (4.3 cm x 8.4 cm)

Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, aquired before 2010

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#170348

  • Condition: Chinese head is a fragment from a larger figure as shown; Thai figure is intact and very good. Both pieces have light encrustations and softening to some finer details, and the Thai figure has minor fading to brown glaze. Nice earthen deposits throughout and great preservation to overall forms.

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