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Is this a sawankhalok/si satchanalai celadon dish?

Diameter approximating 33 cm
Greenish cracked glaze

Any comment is most appreciated.

Lee

Looks alright for me even though the base has turned black, possibly from burial or a muddy river bank?

Sorry, "NO".

Thank you all for the comments and image for comparison.

Pyro, this dish probably from the river/sea bank.

Anita, please advice why this is not sawankhalok dish in your opinion.

Lee

Lee

In the 4th period of production of Sawankhalok Celadon Dish (13-14th century AD), they were for export to SE Asia with mass-production, with easy deeply carved with repeated geometric design, and bad craftsmanship.

Sawankhalok Celadon Dishes are stoneware which were coated in quite a thick transparent crackled glaze.

The glazing process in the kiln is to put dish on top of pontil. The center of dish part will be obscured by the thickness of the pooled glaze. The glaze has sagged and run to the edge of the unglazed foot and base that has fired to a reddish-brown colour. The ring within the recessed base is the mark of the pontil on which this bowls were fired.

Your dish, the clay is too dark, glaze is dull, the center has no thickness of pool glaze, the incised lines in the bowl have "ribbons or butterflies?" the glaze at the bottom is possibly polished, and show no mark of the pontil.

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Anita

Dear Anita

Thank you for the images and information.

The unglazed base darkish in color probably stained from under the river/sea bank.

The glaze at the bottom is not polished.

I attached herewith 2 close up images.

> Coarse stoneware
> Thin transparent light greenish crackle glaze
> Incised or curved floral decorations
> Unglazed base

Any comments are most appreciated.

Lee

It's a Chinese fake sawankhalok dish.

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