This jar from Phayao in northern Thailand, with its flared mouth, simple handles and unglazed flat base shares many features with Khmer baluster jars. However its combination of green and brown glazes and stamped designs indentifies it as connected with the Lan Na kingdom.

Unlike the Sukhothai and Sawankhalok kilns further south which exported wares to maritime Southeast Asia, Lan Na wares were made to support a large domestic market. They were probably also traded with commercial centres to the north including Vientiane in Laos. Most northern kilns ceased production around 1558 when the city of Chiang Mai was sacked by King Bayinnaung of Burma (now Myanmar), who relocated makers to principalities north of Thailand.