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LOT 2123
Hoi An Cargo Shipwreck Glazed Blue and White Lidded Box Collection
15TH CENTURY A.D.
(362 grams total, 65-67 mm).
Comprising three powder boxes with painted rosette to the lid, geometric panels to the sidewall. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Butterfield and Butterfield auction with official Hoi An Hoard labels.
Accompanied by an illustrated information sheet about the Hoi An shipwreck.
Comprising three powder boxes with painted flower to the lid.
FootnotesIn the mid 15th century a freighting junk loaded with fine Vietnamese pottery sank in an area of the South China Sea called the 'Dragon’s Embrace.' This vessel is part of the shipwreck cargo recovered off the coast of Vietnam at Hoi An. The ceramics themselves were probably made in the area of Chu Dau.
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LOT 2123
Hoi An Cargo Shipwreck Glazed Blue and White Lidded Box Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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South East Asian Black Ware Jug with Bosses
Neolithic Period, 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Comprising globular body, radiating bosses with low-relief segmentation and rouletting, slightly flared neck with loop handle. 759 grams, 16 cm
Acquired in the late 1940s. From an old central Asian collection. -
South East Asian Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
Middle Period, 900-300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Squat carinated bowl with flared neck and rim atop a trumpet-shaped base, remains of painted interlocking spiral motifs; foot repaired. 879 grams, 16.5 cm high
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
In Ban Chiang pottery the most common body shape is an ellipsoid form with a rounded bottom covered by a low outflaring pedestal base. The neck variations include a low straight-sided neck and a higher outflaring neck. Body-pedestal juncture and body-neck juncture may be either angular or curved. The same neck variations occur on a globular body, in addition to a composite concave-convex neck form not occurring on the ellipsoid bodies. Again, all examples have low outflaring pedestal bases. -
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Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.-220 A.D. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £468
Modelled in the round in static pose, the horse with head held erect, tail partly absent; integral robed rider with hollow hands to accept reins; painted detailing to robe and saddle; repaired. 1.95 kg, 29 cm high
From the private collection of H. Norry, 1980s-1990s.
