Shipwrecks discovered throughout Southeast Asia and the precious cargoes they contain represent invaluable information for the study of international trade networks. However, these treasure troves of Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese ceramics have been unsystematically studied and rarely published. This book addresses this issue with the author tracing the developments and fluctuations of the international ceramic trade between China and Southeast Asia focusing specifically on the 14th- 15th centuries, a period known in ceramic scholarship as the ‘Ming gap’, a term which arose to describe the ban placed on the export of Chinese ceramics by the Ming dynasty. The author illustrates how as a result, Southeast Asian ceramics began to fill this void and for over a century became the dominant ceramic trade ware throughout the region.