UK museum says ship model’s Chinese, but designs similar across region

The Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) in London said that the photograph of a ship model in its collection is correctly attributed as “Foochow junk”, as per its catalogue.

Alex Grover, the museum’s assistant curator of historic photographs and ship plans, said the model was made by a Chinese maker Tung Ya.

However, he said, junk designs in the Southeast Asian regions are...