About this lot
Description
Two Chinese Nanking Cargo blue and white and cafe-au-lait bowls, circa 1750,
the interiors painted with sprays of peonies within cross-hatched borders
16.5 and 16.8cm diameter
Provenance:
Christie's, Amsterdam, 1986, lots 2564 and 2572
The Frank Herrmann collection
On Monday January 3, 1752, the Dutch East India Company ship, the Geldermalsen, struck a reef on her return journey to the Netherlands and sank in the South China Sea. From the crew, 32 survived while 80 went down with the ship and her cargo of tea, raw silk, textiles, dried wares, groceries, lacquer and porcelain. The cargo of Chinese porcelain was originally potted in Jingdezhen in Jiangzi province and then shipped to Nanking for delivery to the ship for final transportation to the Netherlands. The cargo was recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher and his team in 1985 and sold by Christie's Amsterdam on 28 April - 2 May 1986 as 'The Nanking Cargo'.
both in good "as sea found" condition.
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