HOI AN old antique ancient COVERED BOX blue white CHINA

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HOI AN old antique ancient COVERED BOX blue white CHINA

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Sold Date: 08/23/2008
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Hoi An Hoard bowl 2-3/4" in diameter 2" high MING DYNASTY With original HOI AN HOARD inventory barcode numbers
CONDITION : These have been in seawater for over 500 years Chips, marine encrustation, minor staining and degrading of glaze. This one has NO major chips white color has turned bit brownish BLUE color is still very bright
Lid and bottom match color exactly and fit very well
These are my other HOI AN HOARD auctions I will combine shipping
HOI AN HOARD ming dynasty 4 CUPS vietnamese POTTERY SHIPWECK recovered BLUE & WHITE CHINA 500 years OLD
$64.64
HOI AN HOARD old COVERED BOX orient MING 15th century $17.17
$23.23
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6d 23h 39m HOI AN HOARD ming dynasty 2 WINE CUPS blue & white SHIPWECK recovered VIETNAMSE POTTERY over 500 years OLD
$17.17
$24.24
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6d 23h 41m HOI AN HOARD antique bell form CUP or BOWL blue white $24.24
$39.39
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9d 23h 58m HOI AN HOARD ming dynasty 2 WINE CUPS blue & white SHIPWECK recovered VIETNAMSE POTTERY over 500 years OLD
$22.22
HOI AN HOARD ming dynasty COVERED BOX oriental CHINA $19.19
HOI AN HOARD antique COVERED BOX oriental VIETNAM 15th $47.47
HOI AN HOARD shipwreck BELL FORM CUP or BOWL artifact $58.58
HOI AN HOARD ming dynasty LARGE FOOTED blue white BOWL real 15th Century SHIPWRECK RECOVERED historic ARTIFACT
$59.59
HOI AN HOARD ming dynasty LARGE BOWL blue & white PLATE SHIPWECK recovered VIETNAMSE POTTERY over 500 years OLD
$77.77
HOI AN HOARD large COVERED BOX orient MING pottery 1500 $33.33

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Background Information on the Auction and the Ceramics from the Butterfield's website : The Hoi An shipwreck contained a precious cargo of over 150,000 Vietnamese blue and white ceramics that display a richness of form and decoration previously unknown to art historians and scholars of the period. The recovery of the Hoi An ship's cargo is believed to redefine the art-historical relationship between Vietnam and China, enlarge knowledge of fifteenth/sixteenth century Asian trade, and revolutionize the scholarship and understanding of Vietnamese ceramics.

Through a precedent-setting agreement, unique objects from the shipwreck have been retained by the National History Museum in Hanoi for the people of Vietnam, with another 10% of the cargo dispersed among more than 100 regional museums. The vast remainder of the rare and important blue and white figural ceramics, has been consigned to Butterfields by the Vietnamese government and Saga Horizon, the Malaysian salvage company which handled the recovery process.

In preparation for the series of sales to be conducted both live and online, the entire Hoi An collection has been sorted by archaeologists according to type and condition. The cargo includes hundreds of barbed-rim dishes, pouring vessels, bottles, jars, cups, bowls, figural ceramics, and boxes - all painted with mythological animals or landscape scenes. Within a type, some examples retain their original lustrous glazes unaltered by centuries in the sea. Other examples show various degrees of degradation, but are a marvel nonetheless at affordable prices.

DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY: The ceramic artifacts began to appear in 1993 when local fisherman found pieces caught in their nets. After the importance of the discovery was established, the Vietnamese government intervened and sought assistance to locate the source. The shipwreck containing the treasures was located off the coast of Hoi An, Vietnam, in the South China Sea typhoon zone known as the "Dragon Sea." The heavily laden ship went down in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century, after a period of diminished production of blue and white porcelain at the Chinese imper...