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Khmer Urn
[bus203ut-67]
shipping weight: 7 LB
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The magnificent Khmer culture produced a wonderful body of ceramics that is so unique it is immediately recognizable. While both Thai and Vietnamese ceramics have autonomous aesthetic, their style and development in many ways can be traced to Chinese visual prototypes. Khmer pieces echo a more distant culture; the voluminous, monumental, architectural profiles of their large vases almost recall greek and roman amphoras.
These stunning balustered urns have a solid feel to them, owing both to the density of the stoneware they're made of, the strong lines of their profiles, the flatness of their base, the architectural bands they're decorated with, and the unique glaze that runs from brown to an olive green.
One of the first founding monarchs of the Khmer culture in Angkor founded his dynasty after having escaped the bondage of the Indonesian Salendras. Scholarship has traced the shape of these wonderful vases back to friezes representing very similar shapes at Borobadur in Indonesia. Khmer reliefs show these vases in two functions: in some lotus flowers are held in these urns, in others, the Khmers are drinking from them using long reed straws.
This excavated piece has a dark brown/tan glaze and is in good condition. There is some flaking to the glaze as is common in these excavated piece, but otherwise, this piece is very fine.
Brown glazed jar, Khmer kiln excavation, Cambodia, 14th - 16th Century, restored. 12½ inches high, 8 inches wide, and 4" at the base
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$911.00
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