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Yixing, in the province of Jiangsu, is probably the least know ceramic center in China despite its long traditions. This can be explained by its specialized production, mostly appreciated by tea lovers. The (purple) clay teapots made at Yixing are made from a granular clay and therefore perfect for brewing Chinese tea. Due to the clay texture, a Yixing teapot will season itself with every brew.
All the teapots shown here are from the Desaru (1830) shipwreck and many of the pots were 'signed' by more or less famous potters. Other marks suggest that the pots were made by younger potters, not yet allowed to include their name on their pots. No Yixing teapots have been found on any other of the shipwrecks. For more information about the Desaru shipwreck, please go to: http://www.mingwrecks.com/desaru.html
Ser. No. 3451
This medium teapot is totally intact and belong to the best teapots available from the shipwreck. The overall appearance is very good and the pot has a nice colored clay. The spout and the handle are very neatly fitted to the body. When the lid (which fit the body very well) is tapped gently against the body, the sound is high pitch. This teapot is likely to produce nice tea as it, like all other teapots on this page, are made from the "old Yixing clay". The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 8.5 cm high
Price: USD. 1,295.00
Ser. No. D-735
Medium size teapot with overall good impression. The spout and the handle are attached with care and skill. The lid has a rather nice fit and the "the right" sound when tapped. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 8.5 cm high
Price: USD. 780.00
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Sten is a naval architect who spent more than thirty years in Southeast Asia, primarily designing and engineering marine structures. Sten has an academics enthusiasm for ancient ceramics and has written numbers of books and lectured extensively in the subject.
An champion sailor and diver he has discovered a number of shipwreck in the South China Sea and assisted museums world-wide to exhibit and to collect meaningful ceramic collections.
Sten's company; Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd.. works with Malaysia's Department of Museums and Antiquities and can therefore offer a legal Export Permit from the Department when so required.
Sten has located number of ancient kiln sites in Thailand and in China were his shipwreck ceramics was made centuries ago. He is therefore able to offer absolute provenance on all ceramics sold via Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. and, with good concience sign every Certificate of Authenticity supplied with all artefacts.
The maritime archaeology of Sten Sjostrand has led to major advances in the study of Asian trade and trade ceramics in Southeast Asia. His meticulous documentation of a series of nine shipwrecks from the 11th to 19th centuries reveals the early dominance of Chinese trade ceramics, a subsequent loss of the Chinese monopoly in the late 14th century when Southeast Asian ceramics entered the market, the basic parameters of the Ming gap shortages of the 14th-15th centuries, and a resurgence of Chinese wares in the 16th and 17th centuries. Just as important, Sjostrand freely shares the information from his discoveries. Researchers are welcome at his headquarters where he documents his finds and patiently answers the queries of others. A lifetime’s experience with the sea and sailing allows Sjostrand to bring new understanding to ancient ship construction, and his voluminous reading allows him to set the ships and their cargoes in historical perspective.
Dr. Roxanna M. Brown
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Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum
Bangkok University, Rangsit campus
Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
Yixing Teapots from the Desaru (AD. c.1830) Shipwreck
Nanhai Marine Archeology LLC. Delaware. USA.
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Ser. No. 188
This is the best of the small teapots on this page. The teapots is totally intact and it's well potted. These is a nice, unusual mark in the base. The lid fits well but is slightly warped. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 6.5 cm high
Price: USD. 980.00
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Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. was incorporated on the recommendation of the Malaysian authorities. This was done in order to formalize and to expand on the company’s researcher’s extensive knowledge of Asia’s ceramic developments and maritime trade.
The company’s researchers have been engaged in the search for historical shipwrecks for more than two decades and another decade researching maritime trade. Most of this work is concentrated to the South China Sea, a virtual highway for ancient shipping linking China to India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia in an extensive maritime trade system. This ancient trade started sometime around the 4th century and lasted well into the 19th century.
Following a successful shipwreck discovery, the company obtain a government permit to excavate the wreckage, and then carry out detailed marine archaeological procedures in recovering the artifacts, mapping the ship's remains and securing other data for future research. After each concluded project and following conservation of recovered artifacts, we search for and pinpoint ruined kiln sites and compare its wasters with the recovered ceramics until we are satisfied we located the place in which the shipwreck pottery was made centuries earlier.
As such we have precisely located a kiln sites in Sisatchanalai, northern Thailand in which our Royal Nanhai and the Nanyang shipwreck celadon ware was made around AD. 1380-1460. (See videos on: http://www.ming-wrecks.com/photopage.html ) Other kilns was located in Sukhothai where production wasters matched the fish and flower plates found on the Turiang and the Longquan shipwreck. These unique underglaze decorated wares was made at those exact kilns 600 years earlier! Our latest shipwreck cargo; The Wanli Shipwreck, of Chinese blue and white porcelain, was likewise pinpointed to the Guangyinge kiln site in Jingdezhen, China. (See video on: http://www.ming-wrecks.com/photopage.html )
Our arrangement with the Malaysian authorities is such that we finance all operations and train young Malaysian nationals (on our initiative) in maritime archaeology and related research. After giving all unique and single artifacts and thirty percent of all recovered items to the National Museum (and assisting with exhibitions of artifacts from each project) we are allowed to sell our portion of the recovery to finance future projects. The findings from ongoing research and the compilation of reports, books and catalogues are available on these pages as well as on a separate Internet site: http://www.maritimeasia.ws
Due to the unquestionable authenticity and precisely dated shipwreck pottery, many International Museums now display our shipwreck pieces as reference material.
The artifacts sold on this website are therefore legally and properly excavated and can be supplied with an export permit from the Department of Museum in Malaysia should this be required. This unique working arrangement makes us one of the few Internet sellers that sell from own excavation and issues a meaningful Certificate of Authenticity for every (numbered) piece sold.
So, if you are interested to purchase some of our Antique porcelain, old time pottery or other shipwreck artifacts from the Song dynasty, Ming porcelain or Chinese blue and white porcelain or the famous Yixing teapots, you can rest assured that every piece is excavated through proper archaeology by our own staff. We do not sell anything that is not excavated by ourselves or properly recorded and researched before offered for sale so every piece comes with the “Best possible provenance”
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Ser. No. 1819
Medium teapot in good condition and nice potters mark. The lid fit nicely to the body. The teapots has a "good sound" when tapped. Although not for certain, the lid may be made from slightly different color clay but, if so, it's very hard to see. If not for this uncertainty, the teapot would rank among the best in the Desaru cargo. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 8.5 cm high
Price: USD. 780.00
Ser. No. 2152
This large teapot is also in very good condition.The lid fit nicely to the body with little sideway's clearance. The pot also sound "good" when tapped. There is a nice potters mark in the base. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
ize: 8 cm high
Price: USD. 490.00
Ser. No. DS-424
Another medium teapot of reasonable good quality. The lid fit nicely to the body although with some side clearance. The lid does however have the "right sound" when tapped. The base shows a RARE potters mark. The overall impression of the teapot is very good and like all other yixing teapots, "it will brew very good tea". The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 8.5 cm high
Price: USD. 580.00
14. 12. 2007
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Ser. No. DS-20
Small teapot of average good quality. The lid fit nicely to the body although with some (limited) warping. The lid does however have the "right sound" when tapped. The overall impression of the teapot is good. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 6.5 cm high
Price: USD. 880.00
Ser. No. D-898
Medium teapot in good condition and with a nice potters mark. The lid fit tightly to the body with little side-clearance. The rim of the body does however show a short, shallow chip which does not affect the inner Mouth rim. Otherwise the teapot has the "right" high pitch sound when tapped which indicate high firing temperature. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 9 cm high
Price: USD. 590.00
Ser. No. DS-48
Totally intact large teapot in overall good condition. The lid fit nicely and so tight that it jam in one position. This could easily corrected by a light grinding to the rim. The sound of the teapot is good, high pitch resonance sound which suggest high firing temperature of the pot. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 10 cm high
Price: USD. 770.00
Ser. No. 364
Totally intact medium teapot in overall good condition. The lid does however have some side clearance. Firing temperature was high as evidenced by a high pitch sound when the teapot is tapped. The mark in the base is infrequently seen in the Desaru shipwreck cargo. Due to the side clearance of the lid, this teapot is very affordable despite it's otherwise good condition. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 9 cm high
Price: USD. 530.00
The following teapots are not the best teapots recovered from the Desaru shipwreck. They may have a chipped spout or handle -which can easily be repaired. The pots may have a 'mattish' surface which is from its prolonged exposure to salt water and being fired at a somewhat lower temperature. This type of surface will, without doubt, be as nice as the better teapot after numbers of brew's when the tea penetrated the body. These teapots may be good study pieces and/or used as "brewing partners"
Ser. No. DS-49
This medium sized teapot is in very good condition. It is totally intact, without flaws and has nice, high resonance sound when tapped. The lid does have some, limited side clearance which is usual on this type of teapots, from that time-period. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 8.5 cm high
Price: USD. 850.00
Ser. No. D-68
Here it is not the broken spout or the ill-fitted lid which makes the teapot. It is the handwritten potters mark in the base!
In order to see the characters better, we have washed the base with a white powder which can be removed whenever so required. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 7.5 cm high
Price: USD. 395.00
Ser. No. DS-16
This teapot is marked by 'Mencheng', a famour Yixing potter which is much appreciated by tealovers in China. The last teapot with the same mark sold for more than USD. 7,500.00 during our auction in Beijing (CGuardian.com) 16-12-2006. However, this teapot has a small chip at the tip of the spout (which could easily be repaired) and another chip on the lid's, inside rim. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 6 cm high
Price: USD. 345.00
Ser. No. D-925
This large teapot is intact and in very good condition. The lid fits nicely and the base shows a rare mark. The only problem with the teapot is a shallow, short chip at the tip of the spout which covers less than half of its diameter. The sound of the teapot reveal good clay and high firing temperature. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 10.5 cm high
Price: USD. 290.00
Ser. No. D-352
A large teapot which in overall good condition. There is however a crack along part of the base where the sides and the base plate meet. Despite this crack there is no leaking. Although the lid belong to the teapot, its is a slightly different color. There is also some small, shallow, chips on the rim to the lid. There is a relative high resonance sound in the pot when tapped which, again, suggest that the crack does not go through the body. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 10.5 cm high
Price: USD. 195.00
Ser. No. D-651
This large teapot is in relative good condition. The body is intact and the lid fits very nicely to the body. There is however a shallow 8 mm chip on the lid's rim. Since this is inside the teapot, the chip cannot be seen from outside. There is a nice mark in the base. Resonance is good and suggest that the teapot was made from good quality clay and fired at high temperature. The teapot will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity
Size: 10.5 cm high
Price: USD. 280.00
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