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Chapter 4. Glazed Ceramics in the Musi River

Figure 85. Lidded box, foot under-glaze cobalt blue painting
of a fisherman, diameter 7.5 cm, North Vietnam,
C15–C16, from the Musi River, Boom Baru. Catalogue
No. K2555.

Figure 83. Water dropper in form of mythical beast features
highlighted with under-glaze cobalt glaze, height 5.1
cm, North Vietnam, C15–C16, from the Musi River,
Boom Baru site. Catalogue No. K2557.

Figure 84. Water dropper in form of fruit connected to leafed
twig with leaf venation outlined with under-glaze
cobalt, height 3.8 cm, North Vietnam, Hai Duong
Province, C16, from the Musi River, Pusri site.
Catalogue No. K1309.
Figure 86. Vase, under-glaze cobalt blue ring shaped necklace
on shoulder and thin line with three circles and a
Small lidded boxes were particularly common in the central dot at intervals on lower body, height 6.5 cm,
Musi. These showed a wide variety of decoration from North Vietnam, C15–C16, from the Musi River, Pusri
simple line outlines of flowers and lotus leaves (K1174, site. Catalogue No. K1712.
K1169) to delightfully sketched landscapes and fishermen
(Figure 85). Large plates and incense burners decorated with cobalt
Several somewhat unusually shaped mini jars, (K1032, under-glaze flowers were occasionally encountered but not
K1801, K1712) were from the Musi. These were probably collected. A wide variety of glazed wall tiles as architectural
used for medicines (Figure 86) and a hexagonal cone ornaments decorated in both iron and cobalt under-glaze
shaped object that may have been an ink well (K2589). were exported specifically to the Javanese Majapahit capital

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