There is historical evidence that nielloware has been used for household appliances since the reign of King Boramatriloknat of the Ayutthaya Period; and during the reign of King Narai, it is recorded that he ordered the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat to send a highly-skilled niello silversmith to Ayutthaya to make nielloware gifts to send to King Louis XIV of France and to His Holiness, the Pope, in Rome.