Let’s dive in

This dish is about 500 years old, but it was at the bottom of the sea for most of that time because it was in a shipwreck. Around 30 years ago, fisherman in Vietnam noticed some pieces of ceramics in their nets and divers went down to the sea floor to get the rest. The picture above shows blue and white ceramics that divers found off the coast of Southeast Asia from a shipwreck in 1997.

Vietnamese artists started making art like Dish with Foliated Rim in the late 1300s. These artists were inspired by the designs and colors of Chinese blue and white porcelain, which was traded around the world. On this plate, lotus flower petals surround the picture in the middle. This dish came from Hai Duong province in northern Vietnam, the area that made a lot of ceramics in Vietnam at that time.