15th Cent. Hoi An-Blue & White Mini-Bottle (12/30/2007)

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15th Cent. Hoi An-Blue & White Mini-Bottle

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Sold Date: 12/30/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Treasures from the Hoi An Hoard

Blue & White Mini-bottle

Enjoy a Touch of History and Culture

YouÂ're bidding for an exquisite, museum-quality, rare and certified-authentic Vietnam antique artifact.

This important Vietnamese ceramic is from the late 15th century, of Le/Mac Dynasty period (1428Â-1524). T his is an opportunity to collect a more than 500 year-old, authentic antique treasure for keep.

The beautiful blue and white mini-bottle is of pear-shape, globular form with straight neck.

The bottle is with petal formed lobes molded to the pear-shape body, the globes delicately outlined suggesting flower petals, descending from a tri-fid band beneath a partial coin patterned band that encircled the tapering neck.

Circa: Late 15 th Century

Dynasty: Viet Nam Le Dynasty or " Le So " (1428-1524)

Locality: Chu Dau, Hai Duong , Vietnam .

Dimension and Condition

Height: Approx. 2-1/2Â"

Diameter: Approx. 2Â"

Glaze condition Â- excellent

No chip, no crack, very clean Â- please review images for further condition details.

Authenticity and Guarantee

This item is certified by a seal affixed on the bottom with the Official HOI AN HOARD Logo along with a barcode # that has been scanned & entered & kept by Saga Horizons; Butterfields; and the Vietnamese Government official records.

All the items we sell are original and authentic unless clearly indicated otherwise. We take great care to accurately describe the items. Good clear photos and close-ups of all details accompany all the descriptions. We clearly indicate all defects, replaced parts, non-original additions and/or later restorations to the extent we detect it. We will accept returned items and will credit the buyer for a full refund minus shipping, handling and payment charge if proved to us that we made a gross mistake in the definition, description or dating, or if the item found non-authentic and was not defined as such.

After item is delivered, if it's not the same quality as what we described in, please contact and inform us immediately.

Provenance

These treasures of the Hoi An Hoard: Important Vietnamese Ceramics from a late 15th/early 16th Century Cargo Junk, which sank some 500 years ago off the coast of Vietnam near Cu Lao Cham, Hoi An, the closest port to Chu Dau, the center of Vietnamese ceramic production at that time. The salvage of the shipwrecked cargo was commissioned by the Vietnamese government and was jointly conducted from 1997 to 1999 by Saga Horizons (SAGA), a Malaysian salvage company, state-owned Vietnam Salvage (VISAL) and Oxford MARE, the Marine Archaeology Research Division of Oxford University, England.

The offered item was recovered from this famous Â"Hoi AnÂ" shipwreck cargo, and was obtained through one of Butterfields Auctioneers auction events or one of Butterfields private sale events.

What was the Â"Hoi AnÂ" shipwreck?

The Era

During the 15 th century, the Ming dynasty in China had decreed a ban on maritime exports of ceramics artefacts to the Southeast Asian and other countries, and imposed bans on its own ceramics industry. The markets experienced a sudden shortage of ceramics and porcelain. Domestic demand and especially export opportunities gave Viet Nam the incentives to foster ceramics and porcelain production with unprecedented speed.

Vietnam archaeology had shown that over the 15 th and 16 th centuries, during the Le/Mac dynasties of Dai Viet (Great Viet) - a number of ceramics production centers developed in the region stretching from Hanoi to Hai Duong province. This was the time when the Vietnamese ceramics production and export reached their peak both in terms of the number and of the beauty of the ceramic wares.

The Ship

The Â"Hoi AnÂ" was a massive junk that sailed from the coastal town of Van Don, or possibly Pho Hien province on the Gulf of Tonkin, heading southwar...