Plate with bird perched on a bush
Datelate 15th-early 16th century
Maker
Vietnamese
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 number2000.131
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012.
Seattle, 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
MediumBlue and white ceramic
Vietnamese
late 15th to early 16th century
Object number: 2000.142
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.146
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