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This web page is about antique porcelain from the Ming dynasty recovered from The 'Wanli' Shipwreck. The ceramics onboard the ship included typical 17th century kraak porcelain ware intended for the European markets. Broadly described as Ming dynasty porcelain, the pieces found on the site are truly antique Chinese porcelain. Some of these pieces are now available from these pages.
Generally referred to as blue-and-white porcelain, the typical kraak type was developed in the third quarter of the 16th century in Jingdezhen ("The porcelain center of the world") and was much appreciated by the European aristocracy as it was a new product, exotic and rather difficult to obtain.
By the time the Dutch joined the earlier Portuguese trade with Asia, kraak porcelain become a necessity for many Europeans and started a craze for the ware in the early part of the 17th century. It is from this time that The Wanli Shipwreck dates. The traditional Chinese motifs seen in these pieces are typical of late Ming dynasty porcelain. This traditional style of decoration remained popular until the 17th century when much of it was replaced with less intriguing "Europeanized" style motifs. Since this time, Chinese blue and white porcelain from the Ming dynasty has continued to fascinate many of us. Our own enthusiasm for Asia's ceramic developments and maritime trade will hopefully be reflected on these pages. The Wanli Shipwreck porcelain cargo has since been dated to +/- AD. 1625.
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Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. was incorporated on the recommendation of the Malaysian authorities. This was done in order to formalize and to expand on the founder’s extensive knowledge of Asia’s ceramic developments and maritime trade.
The company’s researchers have been engaged in the search for historical shipwrecks for more than two decades and another decade researching maritime trade. Most of this work is concentrated to the South China Sea, a virtual highway for ancient shipping linking China to India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia in an extensive maritime trade system. This ancient trade started sometime around the 4th century and lasted well into the 19th century.
Following a successful shipwreck discovery, the company obtain a government permit to excavate the wreckage, and then carry out detailed marine archaeological procedures in recovering the artifacts, mapping the ship's remains and securing other data for future research. After each concluded project and following conservation of recovered artifacts, we search for and pinpoint ruined kiln sites and compare its wasters with the recovered ceramics until we are satisfied we located the place in which the shipwreck pottery was made centuries earlier.
As such we have precisely located a kiln sites in Sisatchanalai, northern Thailand in which our Royal Nanhai and the Nanyang shipwreck celadon ware was made around AD. 1380-1460. (See videos on: http://www.china-pottery.com/photopage.html ) Other kilns was located in Sukhothai where production wasters matched the fish and flower plates found on the Turiang and the Longquan shipwreck. These unique underglaze decorated wares was made at those exact kilns 600 years before we found them on the shipwrecks in Malaysia! Our latest shipwreck cargo; The Wanli Shipwreck, of Chinese blue and white porcelain, was likewise pinpointed to the Guangyinge kiln site in Jingdezhen, China. (See video on: http://www.china-pottery.com/photopage.html )
Our arrangement with the Malaysian authorities is such that we finance all operations and train young Malaysian nationals (on our initiative) in maritime archaeology and related research. After giving all unique and single artifacts and thirty percent of all recovered items to the National Museum (and assisting with exhibitions of artifacts from eachhttp://www.mingwrecks.com/of reports, books and catalogues are available on these pages as well as on a separate Internet site.
Due to the unquestionable authenticity and precisely dated shipwreck pottery, many International Museums now display our shipwreck pieces as reference material. (See: http://www.mingwrecks.com/collections.html for a list of these musems).
The artifacts sold on this website are therefore legally and properly excavated and can be supplied with an export permit from the Department of Museum in Malaysia should this be required. This unique working arrangement makes us one of the few Internet sellers that sell from own excavation and issues a meaningful Certificate of Authenticity for every (numbered) piece sold.
So, if you are interested to purchase some of our Chinese porcelain and other shipwreck artifacts from the Song dynasty, Ming dynasty, or 19th century Qing porcelain or the famous Yixing teapots, you can rest assured that every piece is excavated through proper archaeology by our own staff. We do not sell anything that is not excavated by ourselves or properly recorded and researched before offered for sale so every piece comes with the “Best possible provenance”
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO EMAIL OUR PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER; Sten Sjostrand SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR POSSIBLE PURCHASE
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Archaeologists from the Archaeology Department at the Palace Museum in Beijing is currently excavating the ancient kiln sites at Guanyinge, Jingdezhen, China. The budget for the excavations is provided for three years of work. It was on this site that our own Sten Sjostrand discovered production wasters (in March 2005*) which were identical to those porcelain pieces found on the Wanli (1625) shipwreck in Malaysian waters.
Mr. Wang Guangyao, Research fellow at the Palace Museum hads the excavations and confirm in discussions with Mr. Sjostrand that the museum's archaeologists so far have discovered three different kilns and that many of the shards found in those kilns are identical to those found on the shipwreck.
On receiving the Wanli shipwreck catalogue: The Wanli Shipwreck and its Ceramic Cargo, Mr. Wang commented:
"Dear Mr.Sten Sjostrand
Thank you for your book, its contents is extremely important and very helpful to my research.
I am look forward to meet you again in the spring of 2008 (at Guanying) and exchange our viewpoint about the excavation of Guanyinge site".
As a result of these comon interest, Sten Sjostrand will guide interested collectors and friends to Jingdezhen and the excavation site in April 2008.
SO, IF YOU OWN AN ARTEFACTS FROM THE WANLI SHIPWRECK AND IS INTERESTED TO VISIT THE VERY PLACE WHERE THESE PIECES WAS MADE ALMOST 400 YEARS AGO, CONTACT STEN AT; sten.sjostrand@gmail.com
* In August 2005 when Sten returned to the site, a China Central TV film crew
was recording his visit and the shards then discovered. A copy of this DVD video
is supplied, free of charge, with every purchase of artifacts.
The Guanying hill
