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Bowl with plum spray
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Bowl with plum spray

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 number2000.138
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chronicles of a Global East, Oct. 20, 2022 - Oct. 22, 2023.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
Dimensions6 1/8 in. approx. diameter
MediumCeramic
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.137
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.139
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.140
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: 2000.141
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.124