Shipwrecked : Tang treasures and monsoon winds / edited by Regina Krahl [and others] ; with contributions by Alison Effeny [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Singapore : National Heritage Board : Singapore Tourism Board, ©2010.Description: xix, 307 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780934686181
  • 0934686181
  • 9781588343055
  • 1588343057
Other title:
  • Tang treasures and monsoon winds
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.9164/74 22
LOC classification:
  • DS646.15.B55 S55 2010
Contents:
Introduction : ships in the Nanhai / Wang Gungwu -- Rare and strange goods : international trade in ninth-century Asia / John Guy -- Dating the Belitung shipwreck / J. Keith Wilson and Michael Flecker -- Chinese ceramics in the late Tang dynasty / Regina Krahl -- Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid reception of Chinese ceramics / Jessica Hallett -- Metal objects on the Belitung shipwreck / François Louis -- A ninth-century Arab shipwreck in Indonesia : the first archaeological evidence of direct trade with China / Michael Flecker -- The jewel of Muscat : reconstructing a ninth-century sewn-plank boat / Tom Vosmer -- The navigational route of the Belitung shipwreck and the late Tang ceramic trade / Hsieh Ming-liang -- Tang dynasty Changsha ceramics / Liu Yang -- White ware with green décor / Hsieh Ming-liang -- Chemical fingerprinting : tracing the origins of the green-splashed white ware / Li Baoping, Chen Yuh-shiow, and Nigel Wood -- Green wares of southern China / Regina Krahl -- White wares of northern China / Regina Krahl -- Tang blue-and-white / Regina Krahl -- Bronze mirrors / François Louis -- Gold and silver wares on the Belitung shipwreck / Qi Dongfang.
Summary: Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship--an Arab dhow--foundered on a reef just off the coast of Belitung, a small island in the Java Sea. The cargo was a remarkable assemblage of lead ingots, bronze mirrors, spice-filled jars, intricately worked vessels of silver and gold, and more than 60,000 glazed bowls, ewers, and other ceramics. The ship remained buried at sea for more than a millennium, its contents protected from erosion by their packing and the conditions of the silty sea floor. This book explores this cargo and the story of the men who sailed it, with more than 250 photographs and essays by experts in Arab ship-building methods, pan-Asian maritime trade, ceramics, precious metalwork, and more.
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition opening at the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Feb. 2011.

"Cloth edition distributed by Smithsonian Books through Random House"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-295) and index.

Introduction : ships in the Nanhai / Wang Gungwu -- Rare and strange goods : international trade in ninth-century Asia / John Guy -- Dating the Belitung shipwreck / J. Keith Wilson and Michael Flecker -- Chinese ceramics in the late Tang dynasty / Regina Krahl -- Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid reception of Chinese ceramics / Jessica Hallett -- Metal objects on the Belitung shipwreck / François Louis -- A ninth-century Arab shipwreck in Indonesia : the first archaeological evidence of direct trade with China / Michael Flecker -- The jewel of Muscat : reconstructing a ninth-century sewn-plank boat / Tom Vosmer -- The navigational route of the Belitung shipwreck and the late Tang ceramic trade / Hsieh Ming-liang -- Tang dynasty Changsha ceramics / Liu Yang -- White ware with green décor / Hsieh Ming-liang -- Chemical fingerprinting : tracing the origins of the green-splashed white ware / Li Baoping, Chen Yuh-shiow, and Nigel Wood -- Green wares of southern China / Regina Krahl -- White wares of northern China / Regina Krahl -- Tang blue-and-white / Regina Krahl -- Bronze mirrors / François Louis -- Gold and silver wares on the Belitung shipwreck / Qi Dongfang.

Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship--an Arab dhow--foundered on a reef just off the coast of Belitung, a small island in the Java Sea. The cargo was a remarkable assemblage of lead ingots, bronze mirrors, spice-filled jars, intricately worked vessels of silver and gold, and more than 60,000 glazed bowls, ewers, and other ceramics. The ship remained buried at sea for more than a millennium, its contents protected from erosion by their packing and the conditions of the silty sea floor. This book explores this cargo and the story of the men who sailed it, with more than 250 photographs and essays by experts in Arab ship-building methods, pan-Asian maritime trade, ceramics, precious metalwork, and more.