Wanli-porcelain.com is a site for antique lovers and genuine

Wanli-porcelain.com is a site for antique lovers and particularly those privileged to appreciate genuine antique pottery and porcelain

Among the shipwrecks we excavated or investigated, it is the latest of these shipwreck discoveries that has given the name to this webpage. The site was found in November 2003 after two years of search. The ship itself appear be an early European type vessel, built in India. It was carrying Chinese porcelain from the famous Jingdezhen kilns in China. Recent on-site research has proven that the ship's porcelain cargo had been made at the Guanginge kiln site at Jingdezhen. For more information about this shipwreck, please visit: The Wanli Shipwreck.

The Wanli Shipwreck was excavated during April and July 2004. Mapping of the site followed in September, October and November. After final site checking in April-May 2005 on-shore research is ongoing. A full catalogue, to be published by the Malaysian National Museum, is in production and should be ready by June 2007. For more details, please visit: Catalogue

All our work is done together with Malaysia's Department of Museums. After completed work and after the publishing of archeological reports, we are allowed to sell our allotted portion of artifacts to collectors, museums and universities. This way, we finance on-going research. To read what others say about us and our artifacts, please visit: Testimonies/news clippings.

14th century Chinese Ship

16th century South-east Asian Ship

18th century

Chinese Ship

Song dynasty

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14th century Chinese Celadon 'Guan'

15th century Sukhothai Underglaze fishplate

19th century

Chinese blue and white porcelain

19th century

Yixing teapot

15th century Sisatchanalai Underglaze covered box

16th century

Sisatchanalai celadon bottle

Wanli and other Chinese porcelain and kraak ware is now available at: Shipwreck Artifacts

17th century kraak Chinese Porcelain

Nanhai Marine Archaeology LLC

as agents for Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. Kuala Rompin. Malaysia

Phone: + 609 4131002. Fax: + 609 4132996 Send Email

FOR WANLI PORCELAIN, ANTIQUE POTTERY & KRAAK WARE AT CLEARANCE PRICES, CLICK HERE

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Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd. was incorporated on the recommendation of the Malaysian authorities. This was done in order to formalize and to expand on the founder’s extensive knowledge of Asia’s ceramic developments and maritime trade.

The company’s researchers have been engaged in the search for historical shipwrecks for more than two decades and another decade researching maritime trade. Most of this work is concentrated to the South China Sea, a virtual highway for ancient shipping linking China to India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia in an extensive maritime trade system. This ancient trade started sometime around the 4th century and lasted well into the 19th century.

Following a successful shipwreck discovery, the company obtain a government permit to excavate the wreckage, and then carry out detailed marine archaeological procedures in recovering the artifacts, mapping the ship's remains and securing other data for future research. After each concluded project and following conservation of recovered artifacts, we search for and pinpoint ruined kiln sites and compare its wasters with the recovered ceramics until we are satisfied we located the place in which the shipwreck pottery was made centuries earlier.

As such we have precisely located a kiln sites in Sisatchanalai, northern Thailand in which our Royal Nanhai and the Nanyang shipwreck celadon ware was made around AD. 1380-1460. (See videos on: http://www.china-pottery.com/photopage.html ) Other kilns was located in Sukhothai where production wasters matched the fish and flower plates found on the Turiang and the Longquan shipwreck. These unique underglaze decorated wares was made at those exact kilns 600 years before we found them on the shipwrecks in Malaysia! Our latest shipwreck cargo; The Wanli Shipwreck, of Chinese blue and white porcelain, was likewise pinpointed to the Guangyinge kiln site in Jingdezhen, China. (See video on: http://www.china-pottery.com/photopage.html )

Our arrangement with the Malaysian authorities is such that we finance all operations and train young Malaysian nationals (on our initiative) in maritime archaeology and related research. After giving all unique and single artifacts and thirty percent of all recovered items to the National Museum (and assisting with exhibitions of artifacts from each project) we are allowed to sell our portion of the recovery to finance future projects. The findings from ongoing research and the compilation of reports, books and catalogues are available on these pages as well as on a separate Internet site.

Due to the unquestionable authenticity and precisely dated shipwreck pottery, many International Museums now display our shipwreck pieces as reference material. (See: http://www.mingwrecks.com/collections.html for a list of these musems).

The artifacts sold on this website are therefore legally and properly excavated and can be supplied with an export permit from the Department of Museum in Malaysia should this be required. This unique working arrangement makes us one of the few Internet sellers that sell from own excavation and issues a meaningful Certificate of Authenticity for every (numbered) piece sold.

So, if you are interested to purchase some of our Chinese porcelain and other shipwreck artifacts from the Song pottery, Ming dynasty, or 19th century Qing porcelain or the famous Yixing teapots, you can rest assured that every piece is excavated through proper archaeology by our own staff. We do not sell anything that is not excavated by ourselves or properly recorded and researched before offered for sale so every piece comes with the “Best possible provenance”

WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO EMAIL OUR PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER; Sten Sjostrand SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR POSSIBLE PURCHASE

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Nanhai Marine Archaeology LLC

as agents for Nanhai Marine Archaeology Sdn. Bhd.

Kuala Rompin. Malaysia

Phone: + 609 4131002. Fax: + 609 4132996 Send Email

We are Swedish marine archaeologists working with excavation and research of shipwrecks discovered in the South China Sea. These wreck sites date from the 11th to the 19th century. Almost all ships of the times carried pottery and porcelain, one of the few material surviving the long submersion in salt water. The ceramics include Song dynasty pottery, Chinese porcelain, Sisatchanalai celadon and in the 17th century; kraak ware.