Khmer
Covered Baluster-form Jar
1166-1299
Scroll
Khmer
Covered Baluster-form Jar
1166-1299
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with black glaze, 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm.) H
Credit Line
Gift of Mark S. Pratt, Washington, D.C.
Object Number
2021.73
Khmer potters used cross-draft kilns similiar to ones used in southern China and Vietnam, but with a different firing chamber. The shape of this jar may reflect a remote Indian or Chinese prototype but has come to epitomize a distinct ceramic tradition. Khmer ceramics were produced for local consumption rather than exported.
Although Cambodia is today surrounded by Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, these borders are a result of French and English colonialism. Many capitals of the Hindu-Buddhist Khmer Empire (802-1431) were situated in present-day Cambodia, but Khmer political and cultural influence extended more broadly in the region.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2021; Mark S. Pratt, Washington, D.C. by purchase, 1964; [unidentified source] Bangkok
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From https://www.seaceramic.org.sg/ceramics_of_sea/cambodia/:
Brown, Roxanna M. The Ceramics of South-East Asia: Their Dating and Identification, 2nd edn. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Groslier, Bernard Philippe. “Introduction to the Ceramic Wares of Angkor” in Stock, Diana [below, link]
Miksic, John N., ed. Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery, Singapore: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 2009.
Richards, Dick, South-East Asian Ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Rooney, Dawn F. Ceramics of Seduction: Glazed Wares from Southeast Asia, Bangkok: River Books, 2013.
Rooney, Dawn F. Khmer Ceramics: Beauty and Meaning, Bangkok: River Books, 2010.
Shaw, John C., Introducing Thai Ceramics also Burmese and Khmer, Bangkok: Duangphorn Kemasingki, 1987.
Stock, Diana (ed.), Khmer Ceramics 9th-14th Century, Singapore: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1981. (link)
Roxanna Brown, Vance Childress, Michael Gluckman Khmer Kiln Site-Surin Province, https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/1974/03/JSS_062_2j_BrownChildressGluckmann_KhmerKilnSiteSurin.pdf
Brown, Roxanna M. The Ceramics of South-East Asia: Their Dating and Identification, 2nd edn. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Groslier, Bernard Philippe. “Introduction to the Ceramic Wares of Angkor” in Stock, Diana [below, link]
Miksic, John N., ed. Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery, Singapore: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 2009.
Richards, Dick, South-East Asian Ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese, and Khmer from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Rooney, Dawn F. Ceramics of Seduction: Glazed Wares from Southeast Asia, Bangkok: River Books, 2013.
Rooney, Dawn F. Khmer Ceramics: Beauty and Meaning, Bangkok: River Books, 2010.
Shaw, John C., Introducing Thai Ceramics also Burmese and Khmer, Bangkok: Duangphorn Kemasingki, 1987.
Stock, Diana (ed.), Khmer Ceramics 9th-14th Century, Singapore: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1981. (link)
Roxanna Brown, Vance Childress, Michael Gluckman Khmer Kiln Site-Surin Province, https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/1974/03/JSS_062_2j_BrownChildressGluckmann_KhmerKilnSiteSurin.pdf
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