Dish with bird in clouds
Vietnam, probably Hai D’uong Province
Not on view
This dish with its spirited décor of a bird in flight amidst clouds belongs to a small group of ceramics with refined painted designs recovered from the Hoi An shipwreck cargo, salvaged near Cu Lao Cham island, offshore from Da Nang, central Vietnam. It is characterized by freely drawn brushwork that displays all the hallmarks of mass production, with a skilled hand executing the underglaze blue designs with a practiced confidence. The discovery of the Hoi An shipwreck in the late 1990s demonstrated the massive scale of Vietnamese glazed ceramic production at its peak in the early 16th century.
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