(80) A set of fourty blue and white Batavian ware cups and saucers

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THE 'NANKING CARGO' In the late spring of 1985 the VOC ship "Geldermalsen" was excavated, the so called 'Nanking Cargo'. The wreck contained well over a hundred thousand pieces of stoneware, gold and blue and white export porcelain potted in the city of Jingdezhen around 1750 and destined for the western market. The ceramics however were incorrectly believed to be produced in Nanking, the city where they were transhipped to the warehouses and muffle kilns of the Hong Kong merchants. This so called 'Nanking' type porcelain began to appear in trade advertisements and auction catalogues in the 1760s. By this time Chinese export porcelain was available in sufficient quantities on the western market to be an essential part of the furnishings in every respectable house, along with good silver, furniture, carpets and pictures. This tradition was continued when the contents of the sunken vessel were sold at Christie's Amsterdam in the 'Nanking Cargo sale' in 1986.

(80) A set of fourty blue and white Batavian ware cups and saucers

CIRCA 1750

細節

(80) A set of fourty blue and white Batavian ware cups and saucers
CIRCA 1750
Painted to the centre with a leafy single bamboo shoot before a lattice-work fence on a terrace, a pierced rock and large chrysanthemum within a zigzag-pattern border to the rim, minor chips and minor glaze deterioration (80)

來源

The Nanking Cargo sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 28 April-2 May 1986, lot 5656

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