The stamped wares from Johore Lama
This short note by G. de G. Sieveking corrects the earlier identification of stamped earthenware from Johore Lama as Han dynasty Chinese pottery, reassigning it to local Malay Peninsula production of the nineteenth or twentieth century (p. 194).
Summary
Sieveking argues that the paste, firing, and design quality of the Johore Lama stamped wares differ markedly from typical Han pottery and instead closely resemble yellowish-white paddle-marked vessels from Singgora in the Patani states, examples of which are held in the Perak and Raffles Museums (p. 194). The dating was confirmed when a large rim and body fragment was recovered in 1953 from between the inner and outer skins of a Chinese twakoo (Boat B) excavated at the site, a vessel probably engaged in trade with Singapore and the Riau Archipelago some fifty to a hundred years before the excavation (p. 194). Material from the boat was sent to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, for Carbon-14 dating (p. 194).