March Interiors
Timed Online Auction, 20 March - 2 April 2025
Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 32 830
Location
Cape Town
About this Item
A set of six Chinese blue and white 'Nanking Cargo' porcelain plates, circa 1750
each painted with the 'boatman and six-flower border' pattern, depicting a fisherman punting in a broad riverscape with a pavilion beside a pine tree, a Chinese parasol tree and rocks on the near bank, with foliate border, each with original Christie's sale label reading "The Nanking Cargo", stamped with lot number 1755,23cm diameter
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Notes
A large cache of porcelain and other merchandise was discovered on the wreck of a Dutch East India Company ship, the Geldermalsen, which sank in the South China Seas in 1752 and was discovered in 1985.
The ship had been bound for Amsterdam from Canton when it crashed into a reef and sank along with its cargo of tea, raw silk, porcelain and gold ingots. Some 235 years after it set out on its journey, the cargo was recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher and sold at Christie's in Amsterdam in 1986.
Provenance
The Nanking Cargo Chinese Export Porcelain & Gold; sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 28 April - 2 May 1986,
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