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Persimmon shaped covered box
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Persimmon shaped covered box

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 number2000.145
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chronicles of a Global East, Oct. 20, 2022 - Oct. 22, 2023.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
Dimensions2 /38 in. diameter
MediumCeramic
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.144
Vietnamese
late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.149
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.150
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.151
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.152
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.153
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.147
Vietnamese
ca. late 15th-early 16th century
Object number: 2000.148
Covered jar
Vietnamese
13th-14th century
Object number: 64.108