Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia

A team of two potters begins to shape a stoneware jar, observed by a would-be potter in training. The team uses a set of ten wheels, and in the course of a day they complete ten jars, coiling and shaping first the base and lower wall, then the mid-section, and finally the shoulder and neck for all ten jars. Ban Pon Bok, Pon Phisai district, Nong Khai province, Northeast Thailand, 1990. Photograph by Louise Allison Cort.

Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia

Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

by Louise Allison Cort with George Ashley Williams IV and David P. Rehfuss