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Thai Antique Sawankhalok Ceramics
Mueang Kao, Muang, Sukhothai

As The Khmer kingdom declined and
Sukhothai grew in power and stature,
it’s earthenware and ceramics
became sought after trading items.
Today, visitors can still see originals Examples can also be found in Indonesia and The
in museums and take home Philippines while pieces are still being discovered
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beautiful contemporary copies of in ancient shipwrecks. But by the middle of the 16
antique, greyish, blue-green glazed, century, this trade had ended, possibly because of
patterned Sawankhalok ware the battles raging with the Burmese. Visitors can see
being produced in the province. the remains of the earliest kilns where the pots, plates,
Sawankhalok ceramics date back jugs and vases were fired outside the northern wall of
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to the 13 century and actually get Sukhothai Historical Park as well as to the northeast of
their name from the Chinese who Si Satchanalai Historical Park, where it is believed the
turned to Sukhothai to trade for best clay was found and archeologists have excavated
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pottery in the 15 century. and created an open-air museum.
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