Perhaps the best known of all Thai ceramics, these sturdy wares were produced for export in enormous quantities, as is attested by the thousands of pieces that have been recovered from sunken junks in the Gulf of Thailand.
A remarkably varied range of wares was produced, from superb bowls and dishes to delicate miniatures - it is strange that covered boxes are virtually unknown.
Don Hein has shown how celadons evolved from the early Mon to the fine export wares of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
I have retained the term celadon to describe these high-fired stonewares, fired at approximately1260 degrees centigrade in a reduction atmosphere, using a natural wood ash glaze with an iron content. The intention may well have been to copy jade but colours varied from a true green to yellow, brown and the beautiful cloud-greys of Kalong. To call these wares green-wares - a term also used for as yet unfired pieces - is confusing as there are yellow green-wares, brown green- wares as well as green green-wares.

 Celadon