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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘COCKEREL’ EWER, LÊ DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY, FROM THE HOI AN HOARD
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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘COCKEREL’ EWER, Lê DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY, FROM THE HOI AN HOARD
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published:
Jean-Paul Desroches (ed.) et al, Two Americans in Paris. A Quest for Asian Art, Paris, 2016, p. 207, no. 334.

Exhibited:
1. Pointe-à-Callière Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Montréal, 17 November 2016-19 March 2017.
2. Kimbell Art Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Fort Worth, Texas, 4 March-19 August 2018.

Vietnam, Hai Duong province, Chu Dau kilns. Modeled in the form of a cockerel, supported on a flat foot, and fitted with a prominent globular spout jar rising from the bird's back. The body is gracefully contoured with painted plumage, arched tail feathers, and a well-defined beak and crest.

Provenance: Recovered between 1997-1999 from the Hoi An Hoard Shipwreck Site, Vietnam. The base with an excavation label, ‘Saga. Hoi An Hoard. Visal. 9685’. Butterfields, California, 2000. The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France, probably acquired from the above.
Condition: Good condition with expected wear and firing irregularities. The base with light surface scratches, few small nicks, a shallow ship, a minute hairline, and a firing crack. The exterior with minor surface alteration consistent with objects from maritime salvage including glaze lines particular to the spout jar.

Weight: 411.2 g
Dimensions: Length 16.5 cm, Height 11.5 cm

During the fifteenth century, when Ming dynasty China closed its ports and introduced export bans on ceramics, the Vietnamese ceramic industry flourished. Potters, especially those located near the small village of Chu Dau in the Red River Delta, produced thousands of wares for export to regions as far west as Egypt and as far east as Japan.

This ewer was cargo on a teakwood junk—a type of boat with Chinese origins, defined by a high stern and projecting bow—that sank during the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century near the Cham Islands in the South China Sea. The boat, which likely originated in Thailand, was heading toward the Philippines and was heavily laden with ceramic cargo. It likely fell victim to the sea’s treacherous currents or to a typhoon. Seventy meters (nearly 230 feet) below the surface, the boat lay underwater, undisturbed until 1993, when Vietnamese fishermen from Hoi An accidently recovered ceramics with their nets. The fishermen attempted to keep the shipwreck a secret. However, after they strategically dragged metal rakes across the wreckage, hundreds of ceramics were broken and dislodged, thereby floating into other fishermen’s nets, and ultimately flooding the art market. It was not until 1997, when two Japanese dealers were detained in the Da Nang airport with baggage filled with fifteenth-century pottery that the Vietnamese government obtained knowledge of the wreck’s exact location and enlisted the expertise of both archaeologists and the Ministry of Culture.

In 1997, the Vietnamese government secured the assistance of the Vietnamese National Salvage Corporation (VISAL); Saga Horizon, a Malaysian marine engineering company; and Oxford University’s Marine Archaeology Research Division. The scientific study of the wreckage depended upon an advance team with cutting-edge technology, as the extreme depth of the wreck and the dangerous currents made it impossible for archeologists to conduct standard air dives. Managed by marine archeologist Frank Pope, led by the Oxford’s esteemed marine archeologist Mensun Bound, and financed by Singaporean businessman Ong Soo Hin, the team executed three complex, risky excavations that cost nearly fourteen million dollars. Between 1996 and 1999, the team ultimately recovered nearly three hundred thousand artifacts.

Once retrieved from the floor of the South China Sea, all artifacts were inventoried, tagged with an excavation sticker that noted the excavation partners and the unique object number, and stored in three huge warehouses. Vietnam’s National History Museum retained all “one-of-a-kind” objects, and the Ministry of Culture distributed hundreds of ceramics to regional museums. The remaining inventory of artifacts was sent to Butterfields, an American auction house based in San Francisco and now owned by Bonhams. The three-part auction of the “Hoi An Hoard” took place from October 11 to October 13, 2000, both live and online, using eBay’s innovative live auction technology. Indeed, this was a groundbreaking event, as it was one of the first auctions to happen both digitally and in person. Collectors, however, were simply not ready to buy works of art online, as nearly sixty percent of the lots did not sell. On December 3, 2000, Butterfields hosted another sale that featured pieces from the Hoi An Hoard. This sale provided a rare opportunity for avid ceramic collectors to purchase important pieces of Vietnamese material culture at reasonable prices, as museums had already purchased major pieces in the October sale.

Literature comparison:
Compare two closely related ewers in the form of a bird, Vietnam, dated mid-late 15th century, in the British Museum, registration numbers 2000,1212.4 and 2000,1212.5.

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