Hoi An Shipwreck blue & white scenic box, Vietnam, late 15th century
$345.00 AUD
Underglaze blue decorated box painted with a river landscape, with scattered rocks and trees within double line rims.
Hoi An shipwreck, Vietnam,
later 15th Century.
4cm high, 6cm wide
Condition: obvious signs of being underwater, but quite good despite its 500 year ordeal.
This wreck was discovered by fishermen in the late 1990’s, offshore from the Vietnamese ‘World Heritage’ town of Hoi An. The wares were made at Chu Dau, near Hanoi, where an excavated kiln site of the period matches the shipwreck finds exactly. The ship is believed to have been wrecked in the 1480’s, and was on its way to South-East Asian markets. The recovered goods were surveyed by the Oxford University Archaeological unit, recovered, conserved, and sold in the US in 2001.
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