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Ser. No. D-845
Nice medium teapot belonging to the best available group. The overall appearance is very good and the pot has a nice colored clay. When the lid (which fit the body with little side clearance) is tapped gently against the body, the sound is high pitch. This teapot is likely to produce nice tea as it, like all other teapots on this page, are made from the "old Yixing clay". There is an unusual potters mark in the base. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 6.3 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD
Ser. No. D-691
This large size teapot gives an overall good impression with nice colored clay. The spout and the handle are attached with relative good care and skill. The lid has some side clearance and the "the right" sound when tapped. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 7.4 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD
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When ordering from these pages you are dealing directly with a team of dedicated researchers that excavated, recovered and researched every single artifact offered for sale. We encourage you to contact our Sten Sjostrand with any questions which you may have
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Sten has spent more than forty years in Southeast Asia designing and engineering various marine structures. His interest in Asia's pottery and porcelain eventually lead to his search and excavation of numbers of ancient shipwrecks. As a championship sailor Sten has extensive knowledge and interest in ancient maritime trade, ships designs and construction. It is these interests and gained knowledge that is the base for all his books and extensive lecturing.
Sten's company; Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. works with Malaysia's Department of Museums and Antiquities and can therefore offer legally excavated artifacts from these shipwrecks.
In addition to working with recovering artifacts, 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 conscience sign every Certificate of Authenticity supplied with the artifacts.
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
Yixing Teapots from the Desaru
(AD. c.1830) Shipwreck
RECOVERY OF YIXING TEAPOTS FROM THE DESARU (1830) SHIPWRECK
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Ser. No. D-986
Large teapot of reasonable good quality. The lid has minimal side clearance but there is a small chip on the inner rim to the lid. The mark in the base is clear, RARE, and well made. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
This teapot is discounted!
Size: 7 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD
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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”
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO EMAIL OUR PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER; Sten Sjostrand SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR POSSIBLE PURCHASE
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Ser. No. DS-163
Medium teapot in good condition and nice potters mark. The lid fit nicely to the body without much side clearance. The teapot has a "good sound" when tapped. This is one of the better teapots from the Desaru cargo. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 5.8 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD
Ser. No. D-2331
This large teapot is also in very good condition.The lid fit rather tightly to the body without any side clearance. The pot also sound "good" when tapped. There is however a minute chip on the inner rim to the lid. The chip si very shallow. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 7 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD
17th Sept 2011
Ser. No. D-1435
Large intact teapot of good quality. The lid fit nicely to the body with little side clearance. The lid does have the "right sound" when tapped, suggesting high firing temperature. The overall impression of the teapot is good. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 7 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD
The following teapots are not the best teapots recovered from the Desaru shipwreck. They may have a chipped spout or handle -which can easily be repaired. The pots may have a 'mattish' surface which is from its prolonged exposure to salt water and being fired at a somewhat lower temperature. This type of surface will, without doubt, be as nice as the better teapot after numbers of brew's when the tea penetrated the body. These teapots may be good study pieces and/or used as "brewing partners"
Ser. No. D-901
Large teapot in good condition except for a small (mended) split on the tip of the right side of the spout. Other than this, the teapot is free from flaws and the lid fit nicely to the body. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 6.8 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD
Ser. No. D-083
This large teapot, like all others on this page, was recovered from the Desaru (c.1830) shipwreck. This pot is in good condition but has two hairlines and a broken spout. The hairlines are mended and there are no leaks. Despite this, the pot is still an interesting addition to any collection. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 6.6 cm high to the mouth rim
Price: USD.
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Yixing, in the province of Jiangsu, is probably the least know ceramic center in China despite its long traditions. This can be explained by its specialized production, mostly appreciated by tea lovers. The (purple) clay teapots made at Yixing are made from a granular clay and therefore perfect for brewing Chinese tea. Due to the clay texture, a Yixing teapot will season itself with every brew.
All the teapots shown here are from the Desaru (1830) shipwreck and many of the pots were 'signed' by more or less famous potters. Other marks suggest that the pots were made by younger potters, not yet allowed to include their name on their pots. No Yixing teapots have been found on any other of the shipwrecks. For more information about the Desaru shipwreck, please go to: http://www.mingwrecks.com/desaru.html
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The teapots on this page are less expensive than equivalent teapots sold in our Beijing auction. To view a video about the auction, click here. For reference to prices obtained, go to China Guardian International Auction Company web site for auction results
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