Mon introduction
So called Mon wares may or may not have any connection with the Mon people. At a kiln site at Koh Noi, Sisatchanalai, Don Hein has excavated a group of kilns built one on top of the other - the bottom kiln made Mon wares, thus proving that they were the first wares to be produced, perhaps in the middle of the thirteenth century. They continued to be made well into the fifteenth as is proved by their presence in the Tak Hilltop Burial Sites.
Mon wares are characterised by the dark gray clay of tne body, the virtually unglazed outer wall of the dishes and their high out-turned rims - these two characteristics are typical of most Northern Thai wares, indicating that the origin of Thai glazed stoneware may well have been at a northern site such as Phayao.
 
     
 

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