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Asian Art
Public domain

Stupa-shaped jar with lid

14th–15th century

Stoneware painted with cobalt blue under a clear glaze (Sawankhalok ware)

3 15/16 × 3 3/4 × 12 5/16 in. (10 × 9.525 × 31.3 cm)
Gift of John Crockett
2008.222.183a-b
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Thai
Period: 
Ayudhya Kingdom (1351 - 1767)
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance: 

Excavated at Calatagan, Batangas, Philippines. Purchased by J. Crockett on June 26, 1968 from Manila dealer Efemio de Castro.

Bibliography: 

Leandro Locsin and Cecilia Locsin, Oriental Ceramics Discovered in the Philippines (Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1967).

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