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A GROUP OF ‘HATCHER CARGO’ BLUE AND WHITE PIECES

CHINA, TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1643-1646

Details
A GROUP OF ‘HATCHER CARGO’ BLUE AND WHITE PIECES
CHINA, TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1643-1646
Comprising:
A pair of white biscuit figures of buddhist lions
Two large blue and white ‘kraak’ circular chargers
Twelve blue and white ‘kraak’ ‘lingzhi and twigs’ circular dishes
Six blue and white ‘kraak’ ‘dragon mask’ dishes
A blue and white ‘qilin’ dish
Eleven blue and white octagonal bowls
Four small blue and white ‘figural’ bowls
Nine blue and white ‘horse’ bowls
Eighteen blue and white ‘dragon’ cups
Two blue and white ‘crane’ cups
Five blue and white ‘meander’ cups
A blue and white ‘kraak’ punch bowl
Two blue and white ginger jars and covers
Two blue and white ‘garlic mouth’ bottle vases
A blue and white ‘mythical beast’ globular ewer with a zoomorphic handle

Together with: a small blue and white ‘boy’ ovoid jar and cover, a blue and white ‘dragon’ ewer and cover and a blue and white ‘fish’ charger.
D. 36 cm. (14 ¹/₈ in.), the punch bowl
Provenance
The pair of ‘crane’ cups: Christie’s Amsterdam B.V., The Private Collection of Captain M. Hatcher, 14 February 1985, lot 162.
The group of 'dragon' cups with a label reading 'Hatcher Collection / Christie's / June 84', the decoration, shape and dimensions of these eighteen cups correspond to lots 77-80 from the sale Christie's Amsterdam, Fine and Important Late Ming and Transitional Porcelain. The second and final part of the Hatcher Collection, recently recovered from an Asian vessel in the South China Sea, 12-13 June 1984.

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Lot Essay

The wares discovered in the early 1980s in the ‘Hatcher Cargo’, named after the Captain who made the discovery, now serve as important historical documents for the development and global trade in 17th-century Chinese porcelain. The cargo of the ship, which sank sometime in the years between 1643 and 1646, included some 25,000 pieces of porcelain, mostly blue and white wares from Jingdezhen, but also examples of celadon wares, Dehua wares, polychrome wares and provincial blue and white wares. Several thousands of these were sold in historic sales at Christie’s Amsterdam, in 1984 and 1985.