Tek Sing & Hoi An - I'm just a sucker really!

[Dave_Snelson]

Tek Sing & Hoi An - I\'m just a sucker really!

Having seen the Nauticalia catalogue with the Tek Sing and Hoi An pottery treasure hoard for sale, I just had to buy some. I know - I know, I've probably been had over...but I just couldn't resist it. Just the thought of 500 year old Vietnamese pottery retrieved from the sea...

I want to be a marine treasure hunter - honest I do - please, pretty please.

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[Althorne]

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You're right Dave. You're a sad man but I hope you enjoy looking at it, feeling it's texture and wondering about the people that made it, transported it and lost thier lives with it. I have a couple of pictures that I feel the same about (and my beautiful boat). You only live once, enjoy.

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[PhilF]

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I almost bought some but was destracted, good idea I think, enjoy it

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[studgies]

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Dave, there is a programme on Sky TV at the mo on the finding of the Tek Sing and the recovery of her cargo, it is on something like the Discovery Chanel and the programme is called China's Titanic, quite interesting if you are buying some of its cargo.

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[powerskipper]

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If it gives you pleasure , So what , to what others think. Enjoy it!!/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[TomIsitt]

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I bought some pieces from the Vung Tao and the Diana cargos at Christies a while back...some of it's very beautiful. And you wonder how the hell it survived on the botton of the ocean for so long. A few of the pieces I bought have barnacles on them.

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[Dave_Snelson]

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Indeed - the Hoi An hoard is 510 years old. You just have to wonder who made it, who packed it and who transported it - and who died when the ship went down.

It would appear that with the Hoi An hoard, the wares were made in Vietnam, the reason being that in the Ming dynasty, it was decreed that such wares were no longer to be exported from China, so all the top bod pottery makers cleared off to Vietnam. This was only for a few years though, as the ban was lifted and they all moved back to China.

So... the Hoi An hoard is indeed rare because there were only a few short decades to the fame of Vietnamese pottery.

There ya have it!

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