Chinese Shipwreck Funnel-Form Mercury Storage Vessel

Long and narrow, half rust and half ash, like a candle left near a fire.

This shipwreck funnel-form mercury storage vessel is from Cizao Kilns, Fujian Province, China. It is stoneware. Most ceramics carried on trading ships were practical, and many were vessels holding wine, making them roughly the equivalent of today's wine bottles, although some were delicate blue and white porcelain. Slim vessel with a small neck at the top and straight, tapering sides. One side glows orange-brown while the other is pale gray, with white flecks, faint ridges and a roughly cut base. It is 3.5 inches wide, 3.5 deep and 8.75 high.

Two-toned, narrow, and completely unbothered by it.