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Locally innovative ceramic traditions emerged during the first millennium CE with unique technological attributes such as types of clay, methods of production, and firing. These included elaborately decorated earthenware with combed, impressed, and applied decoration, as well as architectural and sculptural reliefs. Glaze technologies flourished during the 11th to 13th centuries for domestic and export markets in northern Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar. Underglaze cobalt blue painted decoration developed in Vietnam was exported throughout the region during the ‘Ming Gap’ (14th-15th centuries). Porcelain donations of ceramics also served as merit-making objects, as can still be seen in Thai and Burmese temples and pagoda museums.