Antique Ceramics Found in Indonesia - South East Asian Ceramics

                    

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South East Asian Ceramics
Among South East Asian wares found in Indonesia we distuinguish Khmer ceramics pl.1 from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries,  Vietnamese or Annamese ceramics from the fourteenth to around the eigtteenth centuries and Thai ceramics from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries 13.

Current with the end of the Yuan dynasty, Indonesia was flooded with ceramics from Vietnam and Thailand, the latter known by the name of the kilns : Sukhoi and Sawankhalok.

It might be possible that South East Asian ceramics came into the market labelled as " Chinese ceramics " so that people would not know these wares originated in Vietnam and Thailand.

 According to Mr. Nikn Musikagama. Director of the Museum at Sukhothai (1978), the kiln in Vietnam and Thailand began producing at the end of the Yuan dynasty and produced until approximately the sixteenth century. It is said that the production of ceramics at the Sukhothai kilns during the fourteeth and fifteenth centuries was supported by the many orders from outside the Sukhothai kingdom itself. The market might have been South East Asia including  Indonesia.

Vietnamese ceramics of the blue and white ware called " ming Korea " by Indonesia dealers until 1970. This error was probably due to misinterpretation. The blue and white wares in the collection are very finely made with an unusual designe and shape (see the covered tureen pl.2).

 The covered boxes and waterdroppers which are very popular in Indonesia are also charming. Besides the blue and white wares, there are also polychrome and monochrome pieces. The main characteristics of Vietnamese ceramics are their cream colored fine body with a nearly cut foot and a base often covered with a brown slip. The rim of dishes and bowls are often unglazed indicating a mouth to a mouth firing. Vietnamese wares were probably made around Hanoi,probably in Namsach Phu and Battrang.

A characteristic of Sawankhalok ceramics is their gryish body with black spots often burnt red unglazed surface. We often see a black right at the base. In addition to the celadon types of the Sawankhalok wares (pl.3, one also finds in Indonesia underglazed black pieces, brown monocrhomes and brown and white wares.   

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