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THE BETTY GERTZ 'HATCHER CARGO' COLLECTIONIn what became a landmark sale in Amsterdam in 1984, Christie's offered Chinese porcelain from a 1640s shipwreck salvaged by the then-unknown Captain Michael Hatcher. Several thousand pieces from the sunken cargo of about 25,000 wares of historically important Transitional period porcelain were offered at Christie's that spring. In the audience sat three friends and fellow ceramics enthusiasts, Antwerp tastemaker Axel Vervoordt, the late dealer/scholar David Howard, and Betty Gertz of Dallas. Betty and her oil executive husband, Melvin, had long traveled widely in both Europe and Asia, where Betty's interest and knowledge in art and antiques grew, The result was not just a wonderfully eclectic and erudite personal collection but also the 1979 founding of her legendary Dallas shop, East & Orient. Betty's 'Hatcher Cargo' porcelains graced first her large Georgian style Dallas house (featured in Southern Accents in March-April 2002) and more recently her stunning new Dallas house, tucked inside a walled garden (and featured in Architectural Digest in December 2015). Both houses were collaborations between Betty and Axel Vervoordt, who designed special white brackets to support the Hatcher blue and white, shown against silver Chinese wallpaper in the first house and in her vine-covered pool house in the new house. Now these appealing porcelain wares, made at Jingdezhen in the fascinating period before the Qing asserted control over the kilns and then rescued from the sea in the early 1980s, have made their way to auction again. As Dr. Julia Curtis wrote in "Transition Ware Made Plain: A Wreck from the South China Sea" (Oriental Art, Summer 1985), "...the varied nature of the load provides ceramicists with a comprehensive view of Chinese porcelain production in the 1640s. The 'Hatcher Collection' also provides insight into the origin of styles in the era of Kangxi..."
A LARGE PAIR OF 'HATCHER CARGO' BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS
TRANSITIONAL, MID-17TH CENTURY
細節
A LARGE PAIR OF 'HATCHER CARGO' BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS
TRANSITIONAL, MID-17TH CENTURY
Each of octagonal form, painted with flower sprays and a lotus border around the neck
13 ½ in. (35 cm.) high
TRANSITIONAL, MID-17TH CENTURY
Each of octagonal form, painted with flower sprays and a lotus border around the neck
13 ½ in. (35 cm.) high
來源
The Property of Captain Michael Hatcher; Christie's, Amsterdam, 14 March 1984, lot 366 (part).