A set of six blue and white 'Nanking cargo' bowl-shaped jugs

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'The Nanking Cargo' The porcelain offered in the following lots were part of the 'Nanking cargo', the well documented VOC ship 'De Geldermalsen' which sunk during her homeward journey in 1752. The contents was salvaged by Captain Michael Hatcher and offered for sale at Christie's Amsterdam in the spring of 1986. Besides some finds of metalwork, bronzes and gold, the amount of porcelain retrieved was spectacular: more than 150.000 pieces. Dinner services, teabowls and saucers, coffee-cups and saucers, single dishes, soup plates, bowls and beer tankards; a great variety of shapes of export porcelain was present. Besides a variety of shapes, a variety of decoration was to be found as well, examples of which are represented by the lots offered.

A set of six blue and white 'Nanking cargo' bowl-shaped jugs

CIRCA 1750

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A set of six blue and white 'Nanking cargo' bowl-shaped jugs
Circa 1750
Painted with a scholar on a rocky bank in a mountainous river landscape with a bridge leading towards a pavilion amongst trees and a pagoda on a distant island, all beneath a trellis-pattern border, the handle decorated with a flower-spray and placed at a right angle to the spout, minor cracks and chips
17.5 cm. wide (6)

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“!” Lots imported from outside the EU. The Buyer’s Premium is 37.05% incl. VAT over the first €5,000, plus 31.1% incl. VAT of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 21.58% incl. VAT of any amount in excess of €400,001.

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