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Shipwrecked：Tang treasures and monsoon winds / edited by Regina Krahl ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Alison Effeny ... [et al.].

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Corporate Authors: Art Science Museum at Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
Group Author: Krahl Regina.; Effeny Alison.
Published: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution National Heritage Board Singapore Tourism Board,
Publisher Address: Washington, D.C. Singapore
Publication Dates: c2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Art Science Museum at Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
Shipwrecks > Indonesia > Billiton Island
Luxuries > China
Pottery, Chinese > Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960.
Porcelain, Chinese > Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960
Trade routes > Asia.
Treasure troves > Indonesia > Billiton Island
Billiton Island (Indonesia) > Antiquities
China > Antiquities.
Carrier Form: xix, 307 p.: ill. (some col.), col. map ; 32 cm.
ISBN: 9780934686181 (pbk.)
0934686181 (pbk.)
9781588343055 (hbk.)
1588343057 (cloth)
Index Number: K875
CLC: K875.35
Call Number: K875.35/S557
Contents: 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-295) and index.
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 / Francʹois 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 decor / 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 / Francʹois Louis -- Gold and silver wares on the Belitung shipwreck / Qi Dongfang.

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