These vessels come from a shipwreck occurred in first half of the 15th century in Hanoi, Vietnam. The discovery of this hoard dates back to 1993 and it was lead by the diver section of the University of Oxford. The 10% of the rediscover ended up in national and paramount international Museums and the rest was auctioned at Butterfields (Chicago), thus bought by important collectors admits the Venetian owner of these lots.
These vessels come from a shipwreck occurred in first half of the 15th century in Hanoi, Vietnam. The discovery of this hoard dates back to 1993 and it was lead by the diver section of the University of Oxford. The équipe rediscovered ca. 250.000 vessels! The 10% of the hoard ended up in national and paramount international Museums and the rest was auctioned at Butterfields (Chicago), thus bought by important collectors admits the Venetian owner of these lots.
Carbon dating tests were conducted on the pottery of the hoard, dating the vast majority of the cargo to 1449. Stylistically this attribution is confirmed by the quality of the design which is inspired, as usual for Viet pottery of the time, to the Chinese Yuan and Ming manufacture. Further consistent with the date is the fact that this specific production had been primarily conceived to challenge Jingdezhen kilns on the export market. Indeed vessels of this sort used to travel, mostly to the South East Asian islands.