Currently not on view
Covered box
2019-321 a-b
Information
Object Number
2019-321 a-b
Medium
Stoneware with brown underglaze (Sawankhalok kilns)
Dates
14th–15th century
Dimensions
h. 12 × diam. 12.8 cm (4 3/4 × 5 1/16 in.)
Culture
Thai
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Ruth Dickes
Type
Description
Globular form covered box decorated with iron-brown designs under a milky opalescent glaze that appears blue where it pools. The cover has a lotus-bud finial encircled by a crenellated ring and decorative bands. The underside of the lid is unglazed. The exterior wall of body is divided into panels by double lines. Thes panels alternate in decoration between triangular leaf shapes and branched tree forms. At the base is a foot ring and the bottom is unglazed.
– Sotheby’s auction (New York, NY), sold to Richard and Ruth Dickes (Morristown, NJ), prior to 2000.<br> –2019 Richard and Ruth Dickes (Morristown, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2019.<br>
