Title
Stem bowl
Year/Period
Early Ban Chiang period (3600-900 BCE)
Region
Reportedly Ban Boon Mee village, Udonthani province, northeast Thailand
Material
Dimension
Object size: H:22.7 x Dia:22.2 cm
Accession No.
2010-00399
Collection of
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
This burnished blackware clay vessel consists of a bowl with sloping sides attached to a tall stem. The flared base is decorated with an incised pattern.The site of Ban Chiang was first discovered in 1957. Pottery was found with skeletal remains, glass beads as well as iron and bronze bracelets. Early Period pottery consisted mainly of ceramic vessels in ring-based or pedestalled forms. Decorations were mostly abstract geometric and curvilinear shapes divided into bands across the vessel.Painted vessels such as this were probably not used as everyday ware in the Ban Chiang culture. These vessels were probably used as burial jars to contain either food or objects for the decesaed in their afterlife.
