Indonesian Ceramic Shipwreck Vessel

A sharp-shouldered pot on a round pedestal, sporting faint combed lines below the carination.

This shipwreck vessel is from Java Sea near Borneo, Indonesia, and dates to the 17th or 18th century. It is pottery. Maritime trade grew dramatically during the Song and Yuan dynasties, from the 10th to the 14th centuries, when Quanzhou in Fujian Province was considered the largest port in the world. Broad vessel with a sharp angle at the shoulder, a rolled collar and a flaring round foot. Fine vertical hatching marks the lower body, and the surface is a dusty gray-brown with darker blotches. It is 6.5 inches wide, 6.5 deep, 6.5 high and 0.16 in diameter.

Angular where it counts and humble everywhere else.