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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

233. Five Colors - A medley.

These exquisite porcelain jars of Thailand were highly prized and used only in the royal household and upper class Thai families. The name literally means “Five Colors” and each piece is painstakingly crafted with hand-applied, real gold masks laid over the white ceramic, enabling the artist to produce a tactile, detailed Thai pattern around the gold.



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benjarong