SUNKEN TREASURES FROM THE HOI AN HOARD 2017-02-12 Auction - 164 Price Results - Turner Auctions + Appraisals in CA
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TWELVE 15TH/16TH CENTURY ASIAN BLUE AND WHITE CERAMICSA 15TH/16TH CENTURY ASIAN YUHUCHUN BOTTLE, VIETNAMEIGHTEEN 15/16TH CENTURY ASIAN BLUE AND WHITE CERAMICS
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South San Francisco, CA, United States
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SUNKEN TREASURES FROM THE HOI AN HOARD

Turner Auctions + Appraisals is excited to present an online sale of historical treasures of 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics that were aboard a ship that sunk over 500 years ago in a typhoon in the South China Sea. Excavated from the deep with extreme difficulty in the late 1990s, the shipwreck's collection of porcelain artifacts - known as the Hoi An Hoard - are considered by many experts to be the most significant find in Vietnamese art. The auction features over 160 lots, each with multiple items. Among the offerings are vases large and small, boxes, wine flasks, bowls, tea and wine cups, serving plates, platters and more. Some items are decorated with blue and white designs, enamel or white glaze; some are undecorated; and some include marine encrustations from their centuries buried at sea. A highlight in the sale is a small, one-of-a-kind box in the form of a crab, decorated with green enamel that has degraded over the years due to underwater exposure at the bottom of the sea.
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