Ampang (Malaysia) (AFP) — Chinese porcelain shards salvaged from a famous shipwreck are being reimagined in Malaysia, hundreds of years after the Portuguese vessel is said to have sunk in battle.

The smashed 17th-century crockery was almost consigned to the scrap heap before Malaysian artist Alice Chang saw the potential to transform the shattered plates and cups.

After chancing upon a social media post selling the porcelain fragments, the 57-year-old bought about 50 kilograms (110 pounds) for more than 10,000 ringgit ($2,370).

Her recent solo exhibition “Me, Then Blue” at her studio in Ampang, a suburb of the capital Kuala Lumpur, turned the porcelain into sculptures representing submerged dreamscapes.

Her materials are fragments of a once-great cargo of blue-and-white pottery made in

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