Indonesian Ceramic Shipwreck Vessel

Round as a harvest moon, in plain apricot clay and a quietly confident mood.

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. Large globular jar in warm orange-tan with a short neck and a thin rolled rim. The surface is smooth with faint hand marks, light scuffs and a small dark patch near the left edge. It is 10 inches wide, 10 deep, 9 high and 0.52 in diameter.

All belly, no apologies, no ornament needed.