A COLLECTION OF CHINESE NANKING CARGO SHIPWRECK PORCELAIN ITEMS, CIRCA 1750.

拍品描述

To include two mugs with single handles; A small tea bowl and saucer; A single bowl; A single dish decorated with stylised dragon. Largest dish 19cm diam. (6)Each with Christie's 'The Nanking Cargo' lot stickers, 1645, 1630, 5567, 3067, 3241B. Provenance: Purchased from Zene Walker Antiques, Oxfordshire. Ref: The Nanking Cargo was a shipment of Chinese export porcelain and gold recovered from the 18th-century shipwreck of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship 'De Geldermalsen', bound for the Netherlands from Canton, the Geldermalsen struck a reef in the South China Sea on 3 January 1752 and sank. British salvage expert Captain Michael Hatcher located the wreck over 230 years later. The 1986 Christie's Auction of the salvaged cargo was sold by Christie's Amsterdam in a landmark five-day auction from 28 April to 2 May 1986. 品相： Mugs in good condition. Tea bowl and saucer good condition. Bowl small chip and glaze frit to rim. Dish good condition. Typical loss of glaze and gilt decoration to mugs with traces remaining.

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