Water pot with cover (Kendi)

The stoneware bodies of Khmer ceramics are rich in iron and sand; the colour varies from grey to buff after firing. The Khmers produced only brown or green tone glazes and sometimes both colours were used on a single piece. Khmer glazed ceramics are technically and stylistically similar, whether they were produced at kilns in northeastern Thailand or in Cambodia.

High-fired, glazed stoneware appeared in the late 9th century at the Angkorian capital of Hariharalaya (now Roluos), six centuries after the Vietnamese, although there is no evidence of a technological connection between Vietnam and Cambodia in this period.