Si Satchanalai Bowl with Carved Lotus Petals, 14th-15th century, Thailand. Diameter: 23.2cm © Zetterquist Galleries.

A large, deep stoneware bowl with flared mouth-rim and sitting on a straight, thickly potted foot. The interior cavetto is carved with large lotus petals having combed detailing. The inside center is carved with a top-down view of a lotus flower. The entire piece is covered with a finely crackled blue-green glaze, which ends just above the foot, revealing a pale stoneware body fired to a buff color. The under-foot has evidence of a cylindrical kiln support.

This piece was repurposed for the Japanese tea ceremony as a “Mizusashi” water jar, and has a custom fitted lacquered wood lid for that purpose. Published in the Gotoh Museum’s 1986 catalog “Exhibition of South-East Asian Ceramics”, pl. 103.

From a private Japanese Collection

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