Chinese Shipwreck Ceramics

The v a has a significant collection of ceramics retrieved from shipwrecks including some from three known ships which sank in the south china sea between 1400 and 1725.

Chinese shipwreck ceramics. Antique chinese porcelain ming dynasty pottery and shipwrecks is our passion. Vung tau shipwreck cargo teabowl or wine cup with horse design. Shipwreck ceramics and the ancient china trade. The ships held export cargoes of ceramic.

Blue chrysanthemum chinese shipwreck porcelain tea bowl and saucer c1660. Chinese coins were in circulation for many years and looking at the ceramics they certainly appear to be later. Chinese shipwreck porcelain blue and white box and cover private collection 1660. The belitung shipwreck also called the tang shipwreck or batu hitam shipwreck is the wreck of an arabian dhow which sank en route from africa to china around 830 ce.

Introduction to chinese porcelain. But it is known that as early as the tang dynasty chinese ships laden with merchandise sailed for southeast asia long before european ships were capable to reach the region. Ca mau shipwreck panel trellis saucer tea bowl c1725 6064 26893. Lena shoal shipwreck new 10 apr 2020 zhangzhou blue and white in san isidro wreck new 28 mar 2020 study of chinese ceramics in the tang belitung wreck.

Zhangzhou swatow wares from nan ao 1 shipwreck 南澳一号. Vietnam binh chau tang wreck. We had a large group of pieces from this wreck which we incorrectly dated to the yuan dynasty 1279 1368 but i now feel the recovered ceramics date from the mid 12th to mid 13th century. Not only were fewer pieces available.

The ship completed the outward journey but sank on the return journey approximately 1 mile 1 6 km off the coast of belitung island indonesia it is unclear why the ship was so far from its expected route back from china. A rare chinese porcelain dish from the vung tau cargo kangxi c 1690 1700 the sale of the vung tau cargo was subsequently launched by christie s on the back of the success of the nanking cargo but this time there were differences. Blue chrysanthemum shipwreck chinese porcelain tea bowl and saucer kangxi c1660. Nanking chinese shipwreck porcelain cargo willow terrace soup plate c1750.

Shipwreck chinese trade ceramics. A fabulous hoard of chinese antiquities salvaged from shipwrecks in the south china sea is causing a terrific stir among collecting and museum circles. Shipwreck porcelain and pottery jingdezhen porcelain and pottery is our speciality and you can be assured that all our shipwreck pottery and antique chinese porcelain is genuinely old and historically valuable.