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Exhibitions
Southeast Asian Ceramics
New Light on Old Pottery
14 November 2009 - 25 July 2010
Fragment from a guardian figure, Sawankhalok, Thailand,
15th - 16th C., Collection of NUS Museum
This exhibition features ceramics produced in Southeast Asian kilns from
as early as the 11th century. Research in ceramics over the past decades
has uncovered a wealth of data about the centres of production,
characteristics of wares from various kilns and the active timeframe of
these sites.
Our knowledge about the consumption trends of Southeast
Asian ceramics has also been enhanced through finds from both land and
maritime archaeology. Employed in concert with written sources, such archaeological
data have been crucial in reconstructing the region's pre-modern
socio-economic and cultural history and providing a more thorough picture
of site usage patterns and intra-regional interactions.
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