Besides porcelain ware, stoneware utility items such as this undecorated earthenware lamp, were retrieved from the wreck of Vung Tau, an Asian trading vessel off the south coast of Vietnam. These included cups, bowls, saucers and oil lamps, which were probably made at kilns in other southern Chinese provinces such as Fujian rather than at Jingdezhen.Vung Tau was bound for Batavia (now Jakarta), from where the Dutch East India Company transhipped the porcelain to Europe.
