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Image Not Available for Plate with bird perched on a bush
Plate with bird perched on a bush
Image Not Available for Plate with bird perched on a bush

Plate with bird perched on a bush

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 number2000.130
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chronicles of a Global East, Oct. 20, 2022 - Oct. 22, 2023.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
Dimensions9 1/2 in. diameter
MediumCeramic
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.132
Vietnamese
late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.133
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.134
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.135
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.136