page_title: National Museum of Indonesia
section_title: Ceramics collection
hierarchical_section_title: National Museum of Indonesia / Gedung Gajah (Old Wing) / Ceramics collection
caption_attribution_description: English: Porcelain garden seat from 14th century Yuan-Ming Dynasty found in Aceh, Indonesia. National Museum of Indonesia collection. Bahasa Indonesia: Bangku taman porselen dari masa dinasti Yuan-Ming abad ke-14 yang ditemukan di Aceh, Indonesia. Koleksi Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta.
context_page_description: The National Museum of Indonesia, is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as the Elephant Building after the elephant statue in its forecourt. Its broad collections cover all of Indonesia's territory and almost all of its history. The museum has endeavoured to preserve Indonesia's heritage for two centuries.
  The museum is regarded as one of the most complete and the best in Indonesia, as well as one of the finest museum in Southeast Asia. The museum has preserved about 141,000 objects, ranged from prehistoric artifacts, to archeology, numismatics, ceramics, ethnography, history and geography collections. It has comprehensive collections of stone statues of classical Hindu-Buddhist period of ancient Java and Sumatra, as well as quite extensive collections of Asian ceramics.
context_section_description: The collection of ceramics room is ranged from prehistoric Buni culture, Majapahit terracota, to the ceramics of China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar. Majapahit terracota water vessels, statues, roof tiles to piggy bank are on display. The museum houses a large and complete collection of ancient Chinese ceramics. It has one of the best and the most complete collections of Chinese ceramics discovered outside China. The ceramics dated from Han, Tang, Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasty spanned for almost two millennia are displayed in the museum.
  This particular collection give a good insight into Indonesia's maritime trade over the centuries. Research indicates that the Chinese sailed to India via Indonesia as early as Western Han period (205 BC to 220 AD) as part of maritime silk road and that firm trade relations were subsequently established.
  The ceramics collection gathered since 1932 is mainly from the collection of E.W. van Orsoy de Flines, who was also the first curator of this collection until he was repatriated to the Netherlands in 1957. Because he was so fond of this extensive ceramics collection — which reached more than 5 thousands pieces in quantity — he refused to divide them up, so he left all the collection intact in the National Museum's custody. It is important to note that this collection that dated back from Han (2nd century BC) to the time of Qing (18th century) is the largest ceramic collection in Southeast Asia.
  After the year 2000, the ceramics collection increased significantly from the addition of ceramics objects retrieved from several sunken ships in Indonesian waters. The latest collection was the ceramics pieces taken from Cirebon shipwreck discovered in 2003.
caption: A porcelain garden seat from 14th century Yuan-Ming Dynasty found in Aceh.
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