Annamese Pottery Jarlet – Hoi An Shipwreck- Lot 388, Auction 10/29/2018
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Annamese Pottery Jarlet – Hoi An Shipwreck- Lot 388, Auction 10/29/2018

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Southeast Asia, modern day Vietnam, Annamese (sometimes Anamese), ca. 15th century CE. A round porcelain jarlet with white glaze and a natural scene in blue of hills and trees in a raised border on the lid. The jarlet is sealed. These vessels were probably inspired by Chinese pottery workshops to the north, and they were exported widely. Size: 2.4″ W x 1.55″ H (6.1 cm x 3.9 cm)

This example comes from the Hoi An shipwreck, discovered by fishermen off the coast of central Vietnam in the South China Sea in the 1990s. In order to pay for the extraordinarily expensive excavation of the ship, the Vietnamese government had 90% of the over 250,000 intact pieces of pottery recovered sold at auction.

Condition: Piece is intact, with fine craquelure on surface. It seems to have extra weight inside of it, probably because it came from a shipwreck and may have absorbed sea water. A sticker of authenticity is on its base.

Provenance: private Meyerson collection, San Francisco, California, USA

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