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Sea Sculpture - Natural Alchemy

Sea Sculpture

By Oliver Raymond-Barker / 11th Dec, 2013 /   / No Comments

A beautiful work that is in the current Aquatopia show at Tate St Ives.

This object was salvaged from the wreck of a trade ship thought to be a Chinese junk, dating to approximately 1725. This corresponds to the reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662-1722) of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The wreck was discovered off the Southern coast of Vietnam in 1998 near Ca Mau and is now commonly referred to as the Ca Mau wreck. The ship was carrying Chinese porcelain of various designs for export to South Asia and Europe. This object is one of a group of 182 pieces of porcelain acquired by the V&A from the wreck.

This object as it exists now as a so-called ‘sea-sculpture’ was created through accident and nature. A number of underglaze blue decorated porcelain pieces were fused together by a fire on board the ship, which was possibly the cause of the wreck. The corals and shells grew on these fused pieces whilst they lay on the seabed. The component pieces of porcelain were mass produced in Jingdezhen, Southern China in the early 18th century.

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