Ming Gap and Shipwreck Ceramics in Southeast Asia written by
Roxanna Maude Brown River Books | ISBN 9789749863770 Hardback –
206 pages Member’s price: $76.50 Usually ships within 2–11
business days. Shipwrecks discovered throughout Southeast Asia
and the precious cargoes they contain represent invaluable
information for the study of international trade networks.
However, these treasure troves of Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese
ceramics, have up until this point, been unsystematic ally
studied and rarely published. This book addresses this issue
with the author tracing the development and fluctuations of the
international ceramic trade between China and Southeast Asia
focusing specifically on the 14th-15th centuries, a period known
in ceramic scholarship as the Ming Gap. The term Ming Gap arose
to describe the ban placed on the export of Chinese ceramics by
the Ming Dynasty. The author illustrates how as a result,
Southeast Asian ceramics began to fill this void and for over a
century became the dominant ceramic