HOI AN shipwreck recovered CERAMIC COVERED BOX ancient 15th CENTURY ming dynasty
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HOI AN shipwreck recovered CERAMIC COVERED BOX ancient 15th CENTURY ming dynasty:
$30.30
The last 2 pictures are out of the above sale catalog of these boxes.
THIS BOX CAME OUT OF ONE OF THOSE LOTS
LANDSCAPE DECORATED COVERED BOX
OVER 2-1/2\" in diameter
ALMOST 2\" high
MING DYNASTY from circa 1438 MID 15th CENTURY
With original HOI AN HOARD inventory barcode numbers .........this is also the COA...........
All item out of this shipwreck where logged in and given a number (bar-code stickers) by archeologists in 1997-99 when they salvaged this shipwreck cargo from the depths of the Dragon Sea.These have been tested and are LEAD FREE.CONDITION : These have been in seawater for over 500 years
Chips, marine encrustation, minor staining and degrading of glaze.
Cobalt blue is A BIT FADED
Glaze is still SHINY
Has almost NO staining
Has NO encrustations
Has NO crazing
LID HAS A CRACK IN THE GLAZE (oven default)
Has NO oxidized spots (salt & pigment turned into sparkling silver/gold spots)
Lid fits NICELY
BUT LID & BOTTOM ARE NOT A MATCH
COLORING ARE THE SAME BUT PATTERNS DO NOT LINE UP PERFECTLY
Provenance: OFFICIAL MARINE EXCAVATION & Butterfields sale
COA number/inventory # 195400
These are my other HOI AN HOARD sale
I will combine shipping
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Background Information on the sale and the Ceramics from the Butterfield\'s website: The Hoi An shipwreck contained a precious cargo of over 150,000Vietnamese blue and white ceramics that display a richness of form anddecoration previously unknown to art historians and scholars of theperiod. The recovery of the Hoi An ship\'s cargo is believed toredefine the art-historical relationship between Vietnam and China,enlarge knowledge of fifteenth/sixteenth century Asian trade, andrevolutionize the scholarship and understanding of Vietnamese ceramics.
Through a precedent-setting agreement, uniqueobjects from the shipwreck have been retained by the National HistoryMuseum in Hanoi for the people of Vietnam, with another 10% of thecargo dispersed among more than 100 regional museums. The vastremainder of the rare and important blue and white figural ceramics,has been consigned to Butterfields by the Vietnamese government andSaga Horizon, the Malaysian salvage company which handled the recoveryprocess.
In preparation for the series of sales to beconducted both live and online, the entire Hoi An collection has beensorted by archaeologists according to type and condition. The cargoincludes hundreds of barbed-rim dishes, pouring vessels, bottles, jars,cups, bowls, figural ceramics, and boxes - all painted withmythological animals or landscape scenes. Within a type, some examplesretain their original lustrous glazes unaltered by centuries in thesea. Other examples show various degrees of degradation, but are amarvel nonetheless at affordable prices.
DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY: The ceramicartifacts began to appear in 1993 when local fisherman found piecescaught in their nets. After the importance of the discovery wasestablished, the Vietnamese government intervened and sought assistanceto locate the source. The shipwreck containing the treasures waslocated off the coast of Hoi An, Vietnam, in the South China Seatyphoon zone known as the \"Dragon Sea.\" The heavily laden shipwent down in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century, after a periodof diminished production of blue and white porcelain at the Chineseimperial kilns due to the Ming government\'s activity to discourageprivate overseas trade. The size and fine quality of the cargo isevidence that the northern kilns near modern-day Hanoi quickly expandedto fill the Chinese production gap and meet the great demand inSoutheast Asian markets for high quality ceramics.
Adding to the lore of \"Treasures from the Hoi AnHoard\" is the dramatic story of the recovery itself. Saga Horizonutilized cutting-edge sonar and aqua sounder technologies to track theshipwreck, while free divers risked their lives in 220 feet of water torecover the objects. Unable to use standard diving and decompressionpractices at that depth, the diving team was forced to live in small,pressurized diving bells for months at a time.
HOI AN shipwreck recovered CERAMIC COVERED BOX ancient 15th CENTURY ming dynasty:
$30.30