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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2657179, member: 2844&quot;]BTZ, do you mean this thread?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/java-burma-indonesian-ceramic-oil-or-spice-jar-xiiith-cent.46133/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/java-burma-indonesian-ceramic-oil-or-spice-jar-xiiith-cent.46133/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/java-burma-indonesian-ceramic-oil-or-spice-jar-xiiith-cent.46133/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A general note on martaban storage jars:</p><p>They are named after a Burmese/Myanmar port that supplied fresh water etc to international ships. The old name of the port was Martaban, the current name is Mottama.</p><p>Most were made in coastal China, but the Chinese had stationed potters and ceramics restorers in ports in other parts of Asia, including Martaban. Production in those ports was very small, the bulk still came from China.</p><p>Pre-1600 most trading ships in South and Southeast Asia were Chinese, hence the Chinese origin of most jars. They had a supply of their own Chinese storage jars in Martaban, where they exchanged the empty jars for full ones.</p><p>Most martabans are fairly narrow and tall. (On Borneo they were even used for burials.) Martabans have multiple small rings positioned at intervals around the neck for a rope to pass through, because they were tied to the ships railings and to each other.</p><p>Unfortunately some early Europeans who saw the jars being loaded aboard ships in Martaban assumed all jars were made there. This has since been rectified.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next biggest suppliers of storage jars were Thailand and Annam. Stylistically jars from these two are difficult to tell apart. Their jars are smaller than most Chinese martabans.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are talking about the storage jar in the link I posted above, I can only advise you again to contact the Princessehof Museum in Friesland. They are the world&#039;s leading experts on Martabans and similar storage jars, and they work closely with Asian researchers and museums.</p><p>Don&#039;t rely on google, rely on their epertise instead.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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