Indonesian Ceramic Shipwreck Vessel

A squat, wide-hipped little vessel on a flared pedestal, dressed in dark and rusty speckle.

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. Broad-shouldered bowl-like vessel with a flaring neck, set on a stepped round foot. A band of fine stamped or incised decoration circles the widest part, and the surface is dark, rough and flecked with pale spots. It is 7 inches wide, 7 deep, 7.5 high and 0.21 in diameter.

Small, stocky, and standing on a podium it earned.