100% authentic, 11th century A.D. antique.    Wood-ashed stoneware bottle from the early time of Angkor Wat Empire in Cambodia.

Height 9 cm., Width 9 cm.    This is 100% antique, NOT reproduction.    Glaze on these items are clear example of Angkorion stoneware.    Will be perfect for ceramic lover and those who wants to study ancient ceramics.     Re-attached at the neck.    Last 2 photos are reference from book: Ceramics of Seduction: Glazed Wares from Southeast Asia, by Dawn F Rooney, the scholar expert of Southeast Asia Ceramics.

This item with ash glazed was made at Phnom Kulen Klin (today's western Cambodia, near border of Thailand).      The bottle like this would be used as container of precious liquid like perfume, honey, or holy water in the households of Khmer officials and merchants.

According to the record of the now famous Zhou Da Guan, Chinese commercial envoy member, in 1296 A.D., the city of Angkor was in caste systems with master residents (rulers, soldiers, priests, and merchants) on one end and slaves on another end.    "Most families have more than 100 slaves, some have 20, only the poorest families have none", he wrote.  It is not hard to estimate then that, out of about 1 million population of Angkor, 7 out of 10 were slaves.   The rest of them were the King and his royal families, nobles, officials and their families, soldiers and their families, priests, Chinese merchants.


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