Indonesian Ceramic Shipwreck Vessel

Pinkish-red, short and flared, with soft banding that looks brushed on in a hurry.

This shipwreck vessel is from Java Sea near Borneo, Indonesia, and dates to the 17th or 18th century. It is pottery. Wrecks such as the Turiang from about 1370, the Royal Nanhai from about 1460 and the Nanking cargo from about 1750 helped create shipwreck ceramics as a collecting category. Small broad pot with an outward-turning rim, a rounded body and a narrow ring foot. The surface is a dusty rose-red with faint horizontal lines and rubbed spots, and the walls look thin. It is 4 inches high and 6 in diameter.

Small, rosy, and not at all in need of ceremony.