Dish with bird amid bamboo design and foliate meander on cavetto

Vietnam, probably Hai D’uong Province

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This dish, decorated in cobalt on a white slip and immersed in a translucent glaze, is typical of 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, a skilled hand executing the underglaze blue designs with a practiced confidence. Technically the Vietnamese kilns never produced true porcelain but rather a high fired stoneware. 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.

Dish with bird amid bamboo design and foliate meander on cavetto, Stoneware painted with cobalt blue under a transparent glaze, Vietnam, probably Hai D’uong Province

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Dish with bird amid bamboo design and foliate meander on cavetto, Stoneware painted with cobalt blue under a transparent glaze, Vietnam, probably Hai D’uong Province
Dish with bird amid bamboo design and foliate meander on cavetto, Stoneware painted with cobalt blue under a transparent glaze, Vietnam, probably Hai D’uong Province

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