Chinese River Boat Model – 1980s Zhoushan Wooden Workshop Edition

This is not a reproduction. It is a continuation — a handcrafted wooden river junk model made to order in the Ocean Relic Studio workshop in Zhoushan, Zhejiang.

The river junk — flat-bottomed, canopied, and built for the slow commerce of China’s inland waterways — carried grain, silk, porcelain, and salt through the Yangtze Delta for centuries. Our craftsmen grew up on an island where wooden boats were still built by hand; they did not learn this form only from books — they inherited it from a living maritime environment. This model is made in our Zhoushan workshop, founded in 1980 by the father of our master craftsman: every plank shaped individually, the lattice railings assembled joint by joint, the canopy roof tiled by hand, one piece at a time.

What You Receive

Who This Is For

This is the model that best represents what our workshop does at its core: a river junk, faithfully rendered, built from wood and shaped by the same hands that have continued this craft since 1980. It suits a home office, study, bookshelf, or any space where the owner wants an object with genuine provenance.

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