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Pottery from Shipwrecks Museum
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Pottery from Shipwrecks Museum (Tamnak Ho Residential Hall). Tamnak Ho was residence built in 1903 for the wedding of Prince Paribatra Sukhumbandhu, the Prince of Nakhon Sawan and son of King Rama V. It was originally built within the grounds of the Bang Khun Phrom Palace, but when the Bank of Thailand took office there, the building was moved to the Sukhothai Palace in 1985. Another move happened in 1998, when HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej dismantled the building and moved it to the Dusit Palace. Now the hall displays pottery from the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya periods, which were recovered in 1976 from underwater shipwrecks at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand (at the coast of the provinces of Rayong and Chantaburi). It is believed that these ships were Chinese and Vietnamese trade junks from the 15th to the 18th century.
