Antique 18th Century Chinese NANKING CARGO Cafe-Au-Lait Porcelain Bowl with old Christies Label

Antique 18th Century Chinese NANKING CARGO Cafe-Au-Lait Porcelain Bowl with old Christies Label

Excellent antique condition ( No Chips Or Cracks )

Diameter 15cm

Height 7cm

An 18th century Chinese Nanking cargo blue and white and cafe-au-lait porcelain bowl, decorated to the interior with sprays of flowers and leaves, with a continuous cross hatch design to the rim, with lot label for Nanking Cargo, Christies to base, 15cm diameter

Note:

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. Of the crew 32 survived and 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, Jiangzi province 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 1985 as 'The Nanking Cargo.

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Bowl on footring, straight rim. The exterior is covered with so-called Batavia-Brown, underglaze dark brown. The inside is decorated in underglaze blue with the 'Batavian' floral pattern, small size. On the bottom a single flowering peony and on the interior wall two large peony sprays and a chrysanthemum spray. On the rim a trellis pattern border.  On the base the original Christie's lot 2546 label and the Christie's The Nanking Cargo sale label proving it has been one of 24 similar bowls sold in lot 2546.