Museum of Trade Ceramics
Restored merchant house displaying trade ceramics salvaged from a fifteenth-century shipwreck.
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The Museum of Trade Ceramics in Hoi An tells the story of a wooden merchant ship that sank off Cu Lao Cham island during the fifteenth century, loaded with blue-and-white ware from the kilns of Chu Dau. It follows the fishermen who first snagged shards in their nets in the early 1990s, and the international team led by Oxford's Mensun Bound and businessman Ong Soo Hin who spent three years excavating the wreck seventy meters down. Inside this 1858 merchant house, shards from that ship sit alongside Chinese, Japanese and Thai pottery collected since the museum opened in 1995. Look closely at how the pieces were arranged, as if still waiting for buyers.
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