Antique Palembang Green Shipwreck Preserve Pot Medium

Antique Palembang Green Shipwreck Preserve Pot Medium

Our treasured Antique Palembang Green Shipwreck Preserve Pot Medium is over 900 years old.

A historic pot originating from an ancient sunken boat which began its journey in China and was travelling through South East Asia before it was shipwrecked on a riverbed. This shipwreck pottery was discovered relatively recently in a tidal strait between Malaysia and Southern Sumatra.

This historic and beautiful ceramic pot features four handles and is remarkably preserved as it was buried in sandy shale in a shipping channel for centuries.

This pot is worn smooth with time and is in remarkable condition being clean and perfectly preserved. There is some green glaze left on the surfaces of the white underglaze giving a raku-like appearance to some of the surfaces of the pot.

This lovely pot would have once been an everyday item used to store and preserve liquids or foodstuffs.

A lovely heavy and robust ceramic item with a time-worn wabi-wabi appearance.

Worn smooth with the passage of time underwater these pots are matt in appearance. The originally glazed surfaces were worn smooth by tides, silt and sand. They have handles to the top of the body of the pot all present and in good condition.

Once used as preserve pots they would have been decorated with an olive green glaze.

This fabulous antique preserve pot would be the perfect decorative antique for kitchen shelving or a glazed kitchen cabinet.

Please expect the condition to be remarkably good for the age of this item but with signs of history as this item is very, very old.

Dimensions

A: H24cm, Ø17cm, Opening 11cm

B: H23cm, Ø18cm, Opening 12cm

C: H23cm, Ø18cm, Opening 10cm

D: H25cm, Ø22cm, Opening 12.5cm

E: H21cm, Ø18cm, Opening 11cm

F: H23cm, Ø19cm, Opening 10cm

G: H25cm, Ø18cm, Opening 10.5cm

H: H22cm, Ø19cm, Opening 12cm

 

Condition: Good

Age: Circa 12th century

Origin: Palembang, China