Microanalysis study on ancient Wiangkalong Pottery

Wiangkalong is one of major ceramic production cities in northern of Thailand, once colonized by the ancient Lanna Kingdom (1290 A.D.). Ancient Wiangkalong potteries were produced with shapes and designs as similar as those of the Chinese Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Due to the complex nature of materia...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 901; no. 1; pp. 12024 - 12027
Main Authors Won-in, K, Tancharakorn, S, Dararutana, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2017
Subjects
Chemical composition
Manganese
Microbeams
Nondestructive testing
Object recognition
Physics
Pottery
Synchrotron radiation
Synchrotrons
X-ray fluorescence
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Summary:Wiangkalong is one of major ceramic production cities in northern of Thailand, once colonized by the ancient Lanna Kingdom (1290 A.D.). Ancient Wiangkalong potteries were produced with shapes and designs as similar as those of the Chinese Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Due to the complex nature of materials and objects, extremely sensitive, spatially resolved, multi-elemental and versatile analytical instruments using non-destructive and non-sampling methods to analyze theirs composition are need. In this work, micro-beam X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy based on synchrotron radiation was firstly used to characterize the elemental composition of the ancient Wiangkalong pottery. The results showed the variations in elemental composition of the body matrix, the glaze and the underglaze painting, such as K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn and Fe.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/901/1/012024