The Sunken Banquet

A maker’s mark beneath a plate. A salt stain on a mug. A porcelain fragment with part of its pattern still visible. Everyday objects can hold the details that bring maritime history closer. The Sunken Banquet is a digital archive for documenting shipboard ceramics. From simple sailors’ tableware to fine porcelain associated with ocean liners, it gives collectors and maritime history enthusiasts a place to keep objects, photographs and their histories together. Build a record around each piece Follow four stages to catalogue an object. Give it an identifier and assign it to an album for kettles, mugs, plates, bowls, decanters or other pieces. Record its presumed era, ceramic body and state of preservation, including intact, chipped, salt-stained, fragmentary or restored examples. Connect the object to life aboard Add the ship or wreck associated with the piece and the setting it served,…