This lidded jar of cylindrical form has fine grained buff-grey body and a cover with a stylised lotus bud within carved circles. It is covered in a pale green streaky glaze. Small ceramics jars and bottles were used as offering vessels to be placed on altars and shrines. This piece may have been used as a funerary urn in cremation ceremonies.Khmer ceramics have a variety of distinctive forms. However, only two types of glazes were used. One was thin, pale green, usually translucent and finely crazed while the other varied from chestnut brown to olive-green and black and always mottled. Sometimes these two glazes were used on one piece.Excavations show that brown glazed wares were produced by the late tenth century. Khmer ceramics are noted for their simplicity in design. Decoration was used in moderation thus allowing for the beauty of the forms to stand out.
