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Small pearform bottle
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Small pearform bottle

Dateca. late 15th-early 16th century
Label TextEvery piece of the quarter million ceramic wares salvaged from inside the Hoi An shipwreck had to be desalinized to preserve them following exposure to oxygen. It was then someone’s job to match the thousands and thousands of covers to their boxes.
Object number2000.127
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chronicles of a Global East, Oct. 20, 2022 - Oct. 22, 2023.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
Dimensions3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) height
MediumCeramic
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.126
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.128
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.129
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.124
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.125
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.130