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If you are not satisfied with our artifacts, delivery service or; if you obtain an expert opinion that the artefact is not of the age stated by us, just return it and will give you full refund!
Storage jars and bottles at clearance prices
All artifacts offered for sale on this page are totally intact unless stated otherwise
Ser. No. T-519
A RARE 630 year old brown-glazed bottle from the Turiang (c. 1370) shipwreck. This is the LAST bottle of its kind! It will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 17 cm High
Price USD. 445.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Nanyang (1380) shipwreck Ser. No. N-714
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity The bottle is intact but the glaze is fully deteriorated
Size: 14 cm High
Price USD. 195.00
Covered potishi from the Singtai (c.1550) shipwreck Ser. No. S-12
The jar was once finished with a RARE white monochrome glaze which suggest that it to belong to the later production period at the Sisatchanalai kilns. There is a small chip at the rim of the lid. There is however a small sea shell next to the lid which well compenasty for the small chip. The lid is still fused to the body and is therefore UNOPNED since its manufacturing, more than 450 years ago! Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 16.5 cm High
Price USD. 160.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Royal Nanhai (c.1460)shipwreck Ser. No. RN6-078.
Nicely overgrown ring-handled bottle which once was celadon glazed but lost its glaze due to low firing temperature in combination with salt water corrosion. The bottle is otherwise totally intact and a decorative piece in itself. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 12 cm High
Price USD. 98.00
Black glazed bottle from the Longquan shipwreck Ser. No. L-137
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 8cm Diameter
Price USD. 59.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Nanyang (c.1380) shipwreck Ser. No. N-716
The bottle is intact although with some deterioration of the glazed surface. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13 cm High
Price USD. 265.00
Storage jar from the Royal Nanhai shipwreck Ser. No. RN-2601
Numbers of smaller sea shell on the body. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 18 cm High (small, 4x5 millimeter, original hole mid-body)
Price USD. 275.00
Storage urn from the Royal Nanhai shipwreck Ser. No. RN-1689
One of its kind from the shipwreck. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13 cm High
Price USD. 295.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Royal Nanhai shipwreck. Ser. No. RN6-147
This ring-handled bottle is nicely overgrown and, clearly, indicate that it arrive from a more than 500 year old shipwreck site. The bottle is nicely covered by marine growth but missing one lug handle. Delivered with aCertificate of Authenticity
Size: 14 cm High
Price USD. 49.00
Nanhai Marine Archeology LLC. Delaware.USA
Sten is a naval architect who spent more than thirty years in Southeast Asia, primarily designing and engineering marine structures. Sten has an academics enthusiasm for ancient ceramics and has written numbers of books and lectured extensively in the subject.
An champion sailor and diver he has discovered a number of shipwreck in the South China Sea and assisted museums world-wide to exhibit and to collect meaningful ceramic collections.
Sten's company; Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd.. works with Malaysia's Department of Museums and Antiquities and can therefore offer a legal Export Permit from the Department when so required.
Sten has located number of ancient kiln sites in Thailand and in China were his shipwreck ceramics was made centuries ago. He is therefore able to offer absolute provenance on all ceramics sold via Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. and, with good concience sign every Certificate of Authenticity supplied with all artefacts.
The maritime archaeology of Sten Sjostrand has led to major advances in the study of Asian trade and trade ceramics in Southeast Asia. His meticulous documentation of a series of nine shipwrecks from the 11th to 19th centuries reveals the early dominance of Chinese trade ceramics, a subsequent loss of the Chinese monopoly in the late 14th century when Southeast Asian ceramics entered the market, the basic parameters of the Ming gap shortages of the 14th-15th centuries, and a resurgence of Chinese wares in the 16th and 17th centuries. Just as important, Sjostrand freely shares the information from his discoveries. Researchers are welcome at his headquarters where he documents his finds and patiently answers the queries of others. A lifetime’s experience with the sea and sailing allows Sjostrand to bring new understanding to ancient ship construction, and his voluminous reading allows him to set the ships and their cargoes in historical perspective.
Dr. Roxanna M. Brown
Director.
Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum
Bangkok University, Rangsit campus
Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
Ring-handled bottle from the Singtai (c.1550) shipwreck. Totally intact and once browen glazed
Ser. No. S-70
Size: 11 cm. high
USD. 75.00
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Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. was incorporated on the recommendation of the Malaysian authorities. This was done in order to formalize and to expand on the company’s researcher’s extensive knowledge of Asia’s ceramic developments and maritime trade.
The company’s researchers have been engaged in the search for historical shipwrecks for more than two decades and another decade researching maritime trade. Most of this work is concentrated to the South China Sea, a virtual highway for ancient shipping linking China to India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia in an extensive maritime trade system. This ancient trade started sometime around the 4th century and lasted well into the 19th century.
Following a successful shipwreck discovery, the company obtain a government permit to excavate the wreckage, and then carry out detailed marine archaeological procedures in recovering the artifacts, mapping the ship's remains and securing other data for future research. After each concluded project and following conservation of recovered artifacts, we search for and pinpoint ruined kiln sites and compare its wasters with the recovered ceramics until we are satisfied we located the place in which the shipwreck pottery was made centuries earlier.
As such we have precisely located a kiln sites in Sisatchanalai, northern Thailand in which our Royal Nanhai and the Nanyang shipwreck celadon ware was made around AD. 1380-1460. (See videos on: http://www.china-pottery.com/photopage.html ) Other kilns was located in Sukhothai where production wasters matched the fish and flower plates found on the Turiang and the Longquan shipwreck. These unique underglaze decorated wares was made at those exact kilns 600 years earlier! Our latest shipwreck cargo; The Wanli Shipwreck, of Chinese blue and white porcelain, was likewise pinpointed to the Guangyinge kiln site in Jingdezhen, China. (See video on: http://www.china-pottery.com/photopage.html )
Our arrangement with the Malaysian authorities is such that we finance all operations and train young Malaysian nationals (on our initiative) in maritime archaeology and related research. After giving all unique and single artifacts and thirty percent of all recovered items to the National Museum (and assisting with exhibitions of artifacts from each project) we are allowed to sell our portion of the recovery to finance future projects. The findings from ongoing research and the compilation of reports, books and catalogues are available on these pages as well as on a separate Internet site: http://www.maritimeasia.ws
Due to the unquestionable authenticity and precisely dated shipwreck pottery, many International Museums now display our shipwreck pieces as reference material.
The artifacts sold on this website are therefore legally and properly excavated and can be supplied with an export permit from the Department of Museum in Malaysia should this be required. This unique working arrangement makes us one of the few Internet sellers that sell from own excavation and issues a meaningful Certificate of Authenticity for every (numbered) piece sold.
So, if you are interested to purchase some of our Antique porcelain, old time pottery or other shipwreck artifacts from the Song dynasty, Ming porcelain or Chinese blue and white porcelain or the famous Yixing teapots, you can rest assured that every piece is excavated through proper archaeology by our own staff. We do not sell anything that is not excavated by ourselves or properly recorded and researched before offered for sale so every piece comes with the “Best possible provenance”
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO EMAIL OUR PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER; Sten Sjostrand SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR POSSIBLE PURCHASE
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Covered box from the Xuande (c.1540) shipwreck Ser. No. X-61
This covered box was made at the Ban Pa Yang kilns at Sisatchanalai, more than 450 years ago. It belong to the later production period when these kilns returned to painting, with iron oxide, before glazing. The box is covered with seashells and a tube worm.
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13 cm diameter
Price USD. 245.00
Covered potishi from the Singtai (c.1550) shipwreck Ser. No. S-81
The jar was once finished with a RARE white monochrome glaze which suggest that it to belong to the later production period at the Sisatchanalai kilns. Intact except for one ear missing and a small chip on the knob. The lid is still fused to the body and is therefore UNOPNED since its manufacturing, more than 450 years ago! Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 17 cm High
Price USD. 225.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Singtai (c.1550) shipwreck Ser. No. S-86
This bottle was brown-glazed when it was made at the Ban Pa Yang kilns at Sisatchanalai, more than 450 years ago. These brown-glazed bottles belong to the later production period when the second generation underglaze black painted wares was manufactured. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 15 cm High
Price USD. 99.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Royal Nanhai (c.1460)shipwreck Ser. No. RN6-28.
Although most of the glaze surface has deteriorated, this ring-handle bottle has a lot of character. There is a 'glaze drapery. near the foot which show remnants the once thick celadon glaze. A small chip at the mouth rim has been repaired and is not virtually invisible.
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 12.5 cm High
Price USD. 109.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Royal Nanhai (c.1460)shipwreck Ser. No. RN6-077.
Nice bottle with some marine growth on the body. The bottle is otherwise totally intact but has lost all its celadon glaze during its prolonged stay on the seabed. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13.5 cm High
Price USD. 99.00
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Covered box from the Xuande (c.1540) shipwreck Ser. No. X-15
This bottle is in VERY GOOD condition with nice, thick glaze covering. It is made at the Ban Pa Yang kilns at Sisatchanalai, more than 450 years ago. It belong to the later production period when these kilns returned to painting, with iron oxide, before glazing. These is a small chip on the inside of the body which cannot be seem from the exterior
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13.5 cm diameter
Price USD. 495.00
Covered box from the Xuande (c.1540) shipwreck Ser. No. X-36
A deteriorated covered box from the same kiln and the same shipwreck as the above mentioned. Its totally intact but suffered glaze wear during it stay on the seabed due to lower firing temperatures. Otherwise a nice piece with well-fitted lid.
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13.5 cm diameter
Price USD. 135.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Royal Nanhai shipwreck. Ser. No. RN6-58
This ring-handled bottle is nicely overgrown and, clearly, indicate that it arrive from a more than 500 year old shipwreck site. The bottle is nicely covered by marine growth but missing one lug handle. Delivered with aCertificate of Authenticity
Size: 11 cm High
Price USD. 79.00
Ring-handled bottle from the Royal Nanhai shipwreck. Ser. No. RN6-293
This ring-handled bottle is nicely overgrown and, clearly, indicate that it arrive from a more than 500 year old shipwreck site. The bottle is nicely covered by marine growth but missing one lug handle. Delivered with aCertificate of Authenticity
Size: 11 cm High
Price USD. 79.00
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