New life for shipwreck porcelain

Chinese porcelain shards salvaged from a famous shipwreck are being reimagined in Malaysia, hundreds of years after the Portuguese vessel is said to have sunk in battle.

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The smashed 17th-century crockery was almost consigned to the scrap heap before Malaysian artist Alice Chang saw the potential to transform the shattered plates and cups.

After chancing upon a social media post selling the porcelain fragments, she bought about 50kg for more than 10,000 ringgit (about R41,500).

Her recent solo exhibition, Me, Then Blue, at her studio in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, turned the porcelain into sculptures representing submerged dreamscapes.