A THAI CELADON GLOBULAR JAR SAWANKHALOK, 14TH CENTURY

supported on a straight foot, surmounted by a waisted neck sweeping up to a galleried rim, the neck flanked by a pair of loop handles, carved to the exterior with vertical ribs, the shoulder with an indented rib beneath freely carved floral scrolls, all divided by horizontal line borders, covered overall in a translucent celadon glaze suffused with a network of golden crackles, the glaze falling short of the foot revealing the orange-brown body

Dunt King, Hong Kong, 1964.
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1964 (£60).
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1964 (£110).