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Shipwrecked : Tang treasures and monsoon winds / edited by Regina Krahl ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Alison Effeny ... [et al.].
- Additional Titles
- Tang treasures and monsoon winds
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Singapore : National Heritage Board : Singapore Tourism Board, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- xix, 307 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 32 cm
- Additional Creators
- Krahl, Regina, Effeny, Alison, and Art Science Museum at Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- Art Science Museum at Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)—Exhibitions
- Shipwrecks—Indonesia—Billiton Island—Exhibitions
- Luxuries—China—Exhibitions
- Pottery, Chinese—Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960—Exhibitions
- Porcelain, Chinese—Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960—Exhibitions
- Trade routes—Asia—Exhibitions
- Treasure troves—Indonesia—Billiton Island—Exhibitions
- Billiton Island (Indonesia)—Antiquities—Exhibitions
- China—Antiquities—Exhibitions
- ISBN
- 9780934686181 (pbk.)
0934686181 (pbk.)
9781588343055 (cloth)
1588343057 (cloth) - Note
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition opening at the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Feb. 2011.
"Cloth edition distributed by Smithsonian Books through Random House"--T.p. verso. - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-295) and index.
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