The Glazed Pottery: Asian and Islamic Imports

Zhang, Ran

doi:10.4324/9781003166221

The Glazed Pottery: Asian and Islamic Imports

Zhang, Ran

Authors

Dr Ran Zhang ran.zhang@durham.ac.uk
Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology

Contributors

Anne Haour
Editor

Annalisa Christie
Editor

Abstract

This chapter presents the ~ 450 glazed ceramics excavated at Kinolhas, which include Chinese and southeast Asian material dated from between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries and a smaller group of material originating in the Islamic world, with a wide range spanning the ninth to the eighteenth centuries. The assemblage is compared to that recovered from over 100 archaeological sites of the broader western Indian Ocean. Numbers of Chinese ceramic finds at Kinolhas were overall rather higher than at many of those other sites, and the networks in which the Maldives were involved are discussed, as are changes over time and the reality of the so-called ‘Ming Gap’.

Citation

Zhang, R. (2022). The Glazed Pottery: Asian and Islamic Imports. In A. Haour, & A. Christie (Eds.), Archaeological Investigations of the Maldives in the Medieval Islamic Period: Ibn Battuta’s Island. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003166221

Online Publication Date	Dec 31, 2021
Publication Date	2022
Deposit Date	Nov 26, 2020
Publicly Available Date	Jul 1, 2023
Publisher	Routledge
Series Title	British Institute in Eastern Africa Monographs
Edition	1st
Book Title	Archaeological Investigations of the Maldives in the Medieval Islamic Period: Ibn Battuta’s Island
Chapter Number	6
ISBN	9780367762698
DOI	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003166221

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Archaeological Investigations of the Maldives in the Medieval Islamic Period: Ibn Battuta’s Island on 31 December 2021, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003166221