Ser. No. T-554
630 year old fish plate from the Turiang (c.1370) shipwreck. This plate is made at the Sukhothai kilns. It is painted with iron oxide on top of a 'slip' which was needed to cover the course clay. This clay shows white quartz crystals and was the only type of clay ever in use at Sukhothai. The condition of the plate is very good. Thick glaze covers the entire plate. The fish motif symbolizes long life. For more information about the shipwreck, please visit: Turiang shipwreck
The plate will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 22.5 cm in diameter
Price: USD. 620.00
Ser. No. T-565
630 year old fish plate from the Turiang (c. 1370) shipwreck. This plate is made at the Sukhothai kilns. It is painted with a fish (long life) motif on top of a slip layer in iron oxide befor glazing, The overall impression of the plate is very good although it lacks the contrast seen in other fish plates. Genuine Sukhothai underglaze plates are VERY RARE. For more information about the Longquan shipwreck, please visit: Turiang (AD. c. 1370) shipwreck Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 23 cm in diameter
Price: USD. 620.00
These underglaze painted plates were made in Sukhothai and Sisatchanalai from a gritty clay that could not be painted. The potters therefore dipped the potted plate in a finer clay (slip) and then painted on top of this layer. After painting, the plate was again dipped in a more viscous clay that, when fired, become transparent and thereby protecting the painted motif for eternity. This technique (of painting 'below the glaze') was developed in northern China 1.500 years ago and was later applied in the production of the better known blue & white porcelains
Ser. No. X-83
This covered box has its lid fused to the body and have therefore not been opened since its manufacturing 470 years ago! It was common that lids, to avoid misplacement during shipment, was 'glued' to the body with a small glaze droplet. The lid can easily be separated from the body by gently tapping the joint.....but we prefer the new owner do this risky operation. The box is otherwise intact, made at the Sisachanalai kilns during its later underglaze production period. For more information about the Xuande shipwreck. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13.5 cm diameter
Price USD. 195.00
Ser. No. X-65
Covered box from the Xuande (AD. c.1540) shipwreck. This box is made at the Sisachanalai kilns during its later underglaze production period. The decorations are well executed but the glaze has deteriorated. For more information about the Xuande shipwreck
Size: 12 cm high
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Price: USD. 465.00
Ser. No. T-764
RARE flower decorated plate from the Sukhothai kilns, recovered from the Turiang (AD. c. 1370) shipwreck. The plate is in reasonable condition considering its long stay on the seabed. But, it is the flower which makes this 630 year old sample unique. The plate will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 23.5 cm in diameter
Price: USD. 335.00
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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
Asian pottery, old time pottery from shipwrecks in South China Sea
Ser. No. X-158
Covered box from the Xuande (AD. c.1540) shipwreck. This box is made at the Sisachanalai kilns during its later underglaze production period. The lid is still fused to the body and has therefore remained unopened for 470 years! The decorations are nicely executed and the glaze condition is impeccable. For more information about the Xuande shipwreck
Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 9 cm high
Price: USD. 1,150.00
For additional information about the Xuande shipwreck and these boxes, see this web site and Oriental Art Magazine No. 2 (1997)
For additional information about the Xuande shipwreck and these boxes, see this web site and Oriental Art Magazine No. 2 (1997)
Ser. No. T-390 640 year old Fish plate
Underglaze decorated fish plate from the Turiang (AD. 1370) shipwreck. The plate was made at the Sukhothai kilns by immigrating potters from Cizhou in northern China. The underglaze decoration in iron oxide shows a stylized fish motif typical of the 14th -15th century production at Sukhothai. The plate is in good condition . The base shows the typical Sukhothai clay with white (quartz) impurities. For more information about the Turiang shipwreck Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 24 cm diameter
Price: USD. 440.00
For additional information about the Turiang shipwreck, see "Turiang, A Fourteenth Century Shipwreck in Southeast Asian Waters". by Dr. Roxanna Brown & our own researcher: Sten Sjostrand. Published by Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena. (2000)
Ser. No. T- 573 640 year old Fish plate
Underglaze decorated fish plate from the Turiang (AD. 1370) shipwreck. The plate was made at the Sukhothai kilns by immigrating potters from Cizhou in northern China. The underglaze decoration in iron oxide shows a stylized fish motif typical of the 14th -15th century production at Sukhothai. The plate is only slighly deteriorated but otherwise intact. This is one of the very few fish plates were the fish is pointing to the right! The base of the plate shows the typical Sukhothai clay with white (quartz) impurities. For more information about the Turiang shipwreck Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 23.5 cm diameter
Price: USD. 480.00
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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.ming-wrecks.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.ming-wrecks.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”
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Ser. No. X-77
Underglaze decorated covered box from the Xuande (c. 1540) shipwreck. The box is totally intact and shows a potters mark in the base. These marks was often used at communal kilns such that the owner/potter could identify his ware after firing. The box is made at the Sisachanalai kilns during its later underglaze production period. For more information about the Xuande shipwreck. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 13.5 cm diameter
Price USD. 380.00
