Nanking Cargo c1750 Chinese Shipwreck Porcelain Boatman Plate
*Please Note. Christies catalogue not included with the sale of this boatman plate*
Beautifully hand painted in cobalt blue with a fisherman punting his boat within a broad river landscape, with a two storey pavilion beside pine, wutong and rocks on the near bank.
Condition: Manufacturing blemishes along with further manufacturing faults verso as photographed. Small rim frit and chip also photographed. Please see the additional video provided.
Size: 23cm in diameter
Provenance: In the absence of the Christies auction sticker, scanned pages taken from the original auction catalogue relating to the boatman plates will be supplied along with the sale.
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The Nanking cargo is the most famous of the
shipwreck cargoes. It attracted world wide media attention when it was
auctioned by Christies Amsterdam in April 1986.The ships name was 'The Geldermalsen'
belonging to the Dutch East India Company. The (VerenigdeOostIndische Compagnie
(V.O.C). She set sail from Canton on December 18th 1751 bound for Amsterdam.
The valuable cargo consisted of over 160,000 pieces of porcelain, tea, raw
silk, textiles and one hundred and forty five gold ingots. On January 3rd 1752,
after 16 days sailing the Geldermalsen hit a reef and sank in the South China
Sea. The cargo was recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher and his team in
1985-86, shipped to Amsterdam and sold two hundred and thirty four years late!
I spent four days viewing the porcelain in order to select the nicer pieces.
The auction which made £10,000,000 was one of the most fascinating I have ever
been to, attracting very many bidders from all over the world both in room and
on the telephone, everyone wanted a piece of the Nanking Cargo!