Sawankhalok

Refers to the style of pottery developed from the compulsion to produce vast quantities of ceramics for export during the Ayutthaya period. These export wares included large dishes, bowls, vases, oil lamps, miniature elephants, spinning pulleys, plumb-weights, and roof tiles. Ceramics in this style can be divided into five types: celadon which describes high-fired stoneware covered with a natural feldspathic, wood-ash glaze, underglaze black, brown and pearl, brown, and white. Colors of these ceramics ranged from light green to olive green or blue green and from brown to pale honey or near-white. Pottery and ceramics in this style were predominantly plain and utilitarian but some pieces exhibited combed or incised patterns under the glaze.