Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo ‘Landscape and Trellis’ Saucer c1725

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Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo ‘Landscape and Trellis’ Saucer c1725:
$105.68

CaMau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo ‘Landscape and Trellis’ Pattern SaucerDish c1725 This piece is delicately painted with an island pavilion and distant boats withina panelled border of moths and foliage, the rim with a trellis border.Size: 10.7cm in diameter Condition: This saucer dish is in good condition with no chips or cracks, it retains good colouring with an all over rubbed glaze.

Ca Mau Cargo Shipwreck Story c1725 The wreck was discovered by fisherman working off the Ca Mau peninsular whentheir nets snagged on it. When they realised the porcelain was saleable theybegan dredging up as much as possible. Once the Vietnamese Ministry of Cultureand Information realised what was happening they moved in quickly to secure thewreck site. The excavation was lead by the Curator of The National Museum of Vietnameseculture. As you can see by the underside of the piece, not only does it havethe Sotheby’s sale sticker but the reference numbers of the Vietnameseconservators. In all, 130,000 pieces were recovered and 76,000 of the finercondition pieces were selected to be sold by Sotheby’s. The ship was a Chinese ocean going junk, almost certainly en route from Canton(now Kuangzhou) to the Dutch trading port of Batavia (now Jakarta). Disasterstruck off the Ca Mau peninsular, there was a fire on board so severe that someof the porcelain was fused together. There were a few wine cups recoveredbearing the mark of the Emperor Yangzheng who reigned from 1723 to 1735. Bythis time tea and coffee was the rage throughout Europe and the principaltraders were the East India Company and the VOC of Amsterdam

With the demand for tea came demand for porcelain by which to drink it and so most of what they imported in these year was tea wares.
All these shipwrecks like the Ca Mau are regarded as time capsules packed with information allowing maritime historians and archaeologists an insight into the life and trade of the time. Here is an opportunity to own a piece of history with a fascinating story.